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
September 9th, 2023 at 2:25PM
So can I.
September 12th, 2023 at 11:26PM
Meanwhile, in real life, the county sheriff and the state attorney general have told the governor to pound sand!
September 13th, 2023 at 12:40PM
Stephen: Yes. They and a lot of other people.
My take on this is maybe a bit different: For at least 30 days, as people in and out of the state become hysterical, a new and special form of attention will be paid to guns. This is all to the good.
September 13th, 2023 at 10:36PM
UD: These days the news cycle puts me in mind of the Grinch at Christmas, all the noise, NOISE, NOISE. We’ll see what’s top of id come mid-October.
Add a judge enjoining the governor’s ukases to the list of official objectors.
As far as the new and special form of attention, does that include soccer moms carrying the family hunting rifles in suburban neighborhoods as a form of protest? It’s not yet Chilean homemakers banging their pots like 50 years ago, it could mean more people driven to the populist right by more High Modern Authoritarianism gone bad.
September 13th, 2023 at 11:12PM
Stephen: My thing is: The more nonsense and hysteria the better. Soccer moms with hunting rifles nothing. I’m hoping for much more absurd theater of the absurd in the next few weeks. It’s time Americans got a sense of what our gun madness looks like to the rest of the world. It’s time for the makers of The Book of Mormon musical to produce a brilliant vicious hilarious satire about Americans and guns. Something about the varsity runners at Chapel Hill and their form of daily practice. Etc. I want things to tip over into madness. Reality therapy time. It might not be too late.
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