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 9th, 2024 at 11:18PM
I hadn’t seen this essay (she posted a different one in Liberties about her post-rape brokenness, on which she based her accusation of Mounk) but it makes Modern Orthodoxy sound like an insular cult from which she alone escaped. The majority of Orthodox Jews go to secular colleges! It’s not like some perilous journey into the corrupt unknown which she alone braved. Then they go get normal professional jobs with their normal educations, like her own parents, who went to the very insular, hyper-religious institutions known as UChicago and Harvard Law, and then became successful lawyers. This is a typically trumped up tale of woe to accentuate her image of herself as a uniquely sensitive and tortured creature. Naomi Wolf is a good comparison.
February 10th, 2024 at 4:12AM
Rita: I’m no friend of Orthodoxy (but I tend to get worked up about the Ultra rather than Modern Orthodox), so in principle I’m receptive to attacks like Marcus’s. The problem is that every one of her paragraphs has the whiff of bs.
February 10th, 2024 at 4:21PM
I think she’s counting on this disposition towards religion in her readers to give it all the cover of plausibility. But yes, it’s all baloney; she’s just a woman from Philadelphia’s Main Line with highly educated, wealthy parents, who attended a nice private school and then the Ivy League. This caused her anorexia about as much as the knuckle-rapping nuns of mid-century American Catholic fiction caused all its authors to be sexual neurotics.
February 10th, 2024 at 4:30PM
It’s always tough disentangling early life experience from later trauma. Her writing makes the task somewhat easier than usual.