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
April 30th, 2023 at 5:11PM
Usual comment by “leaders” of the community. The phrase is “Our hearts are broken” which has replaced “thoughts and prayers” as meaningless verbiage.
April 30th, 2023 at 6:32PM
Matt: I suspect they think that heating up the emotional vulnerability (heartbroken) gives them an edge on the reflexive disengaged thoughts and prayers thing.
I appreciate the honesty of Gov Abbott, who ignored the whole thing and tweeted something whimsical and inane about upcoming weekend fun. People attacked this as shockingly insensitive, but since he indeed doesn’t give a shit, along with his fellow gun fanatics, I applaud his approach.
April 30th, 2023 at 9:06PM
Pretend it’s not happening! The perfect solution.
April 30th, 2023 at 10:37PM
It’s worse than pretending it’s not happening; it’s finding a lot of innocent death/injury an acceptable – expected – and to be sure unfortunate! – price to pay for an armed to the teeth population. You don’t respond to the mass murders, because you expect some of that, given our remarkable freedom/abundance of the gun. I mean of course there’s going to be collateral damage! It’s a pity, but nothing to be done.
May 1st, 2023 at 6:27AM
The other mass murder in Texas, the shooter got away clean, and the Texas police, heroes of the Ulvade shooting, have zero leads. Whenever you see a Texas LEO in a cowboy hat the question is: coward or incompetent?
Gov. Abbott is offering 50K as a reward for the “illegal immigrant” who shot some other “illegal immigrants”
Greg, they can also be identified as mothers who died protecting their children.