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
August 5th, 2023 at 1:51PM
“… but short of a complete dictatorship here, they will pay the full price when the next government takes power”
Hasn’t that bridge already been crossed? When will this next government come?
August 5th, 2023 at 2:02PM
I singled that sentence out, too. But I agree with the writer that the government is likely to change back to democratic, and when that happens the shit, for the haredim, will definitely hit the fan.
August 5th, 2023 at 3:20PM
The link is behind a subscription so I could not read it. Netanyahu and cohorts have held power for a long time and are never out for very long. I don’t see the same bent for democracy that you do. The canton idea does not seem far-fetched.
August 6th, 2023 at 9:25AM
Yeah sorry about the link but I figured the whole point of the piece is in the headline, first few lines.
And the comments on the piece – which do show up – kick the issue around in an interesting way.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-04/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/haredim-realize-backing-the-coup-was-a-mistake-and-worry-revenge-is-coming/00000189-c08f-d821-afdd-dbaf1f8e0000
August 6th, 2023 at 10:45AM
I see two themes in the comments:
1) There will be a next election/reckoning
– Remains to be seen
2) The haredim should move to their communities “in the Diaspora”
– Leaves others with even fewer options to deal with the problem
August 6th, 2023 at 12:58PM
America’s ultraorthodox, like Israel’s, are a real and growing problem. They share the same large-scale vaccine refusal, high rates of welfare dependency/welfare fraud, sexual abuse scandals, a refusal to educate their children, a tendency to riot when annoyed, gender segregation, and general lack of interest in following the laws of this country. Israel’s ultraorthodox way outnumber them and are much further developed in every one of these outlaw tendencies. Israel’s community would be far better off in Saudi Arabia.
August 6th, 2023 at 1:09PM
I think we’re in agreement. On a prior topic I commented on the similarities among the orthodox across the middle east. I don’t think Saudi Arabia would accept them but that just exposes other hypocrisies. I believe that the Haaretz commenters were hoping the haredi would repair to New York and other places. Casting off problems of one’s making onto others is disturbing.
August 6th, 2023 at 1:23PM
Relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel grow warmer by the day. Saudi Arabia shares precisely the primitive ethos on which ultraorthodoxy is based, and has far too much money to bother about the civic uselessness of the haredim. It’s a match made in heaven.