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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
February 18th, 2021 at 11:46AM
I want for his great, manly, sand-caked, Cubo-Texan, body – in but a Speedo – to be displayed, all over the Internet against a warm azure background. However there are no lengths to which I wouldn’t go to avoid seeing the photos or footage myself.
My somewhat unhinged, loosely associative, digressive, mind can’t resist pasting this in, and terrific it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3OXUpmrbKU
Perhaps Ted’s friends will call him Speedo, but, in the end, his real name is Raphael.
February 18th, 2021 at 1:48PM
Greg: My associative mind, when Ted Cruz heaves into view, goes to the title of a book most English PhD students in my day read: Self-Consuming Artifacts. Which is to say, you get the feeling that his enemies don’t need to plot against him, because he’s more committed than they are to his destruction.
February 18th, 2021 at 11:29PM
It will be worth it if the manifest failures of the past week here in Texas lead to meaningful changes at the state and local level.
I’m not holding my breath though. The people responsible for the failures are the same ones who will have to lead the changes, at least until election time next year. By then, everyone will have forgotten, and elections will turn on the latest actions/inactions in Washington, DC. We like to say that Texans can run Texas, and I’d like to think that that’s true. Unfortunately, we’ve let national politics ruin our ability to work together for the benefit of Texas.
In this particular case, I thought Cruz had better sense. Evidently, I thought wrong.
February 19th, 2021 at 12:51AM
JND: Well, I think part of the answer is this. I don’t know if Beto plans to run again, but he got awfully close last time. And he’s certainly being very loud indeed about the manifest failures of the past week.
Say what you will about Beto, he’s a recognizable, actually rather ordinary, politician. Cruz has always struck me as … bizarre. The Cancun thing was bizarre. I think Texas should trade him in for someone who’s at least in the normal range.
February 19th, 2021 at 12:54AM
He left his dog behind in the cold.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/ted-cruz-flees-texas-for-cancun-ditches-family-poodle.html
February 19th, 2021 at 1:10AM
wayward: LOL.