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 12th, 2024 at 11:36AM
There’s this blue collar formulation, “sure he’s an a**hole but he’s OUR a**hole,” that governs here. A few weeks ago Brett Stephens broke that phenomenon down in the New York Times and it goes a long way toward explaining why Orange Man’s base is as loyal as it is. Sure, Nikki Haley would cause Establishment types some trouble, but the base wants to see full-on hair pulling and Rachel Maddow looking glum all the time. More recently, Joel Kotkin broke down some of the reasons Trump still polls well, that appears in some other forum, not his usual City Journal or Reason haunts. And the best Old Joe could do during the Candid Shots of Taylor Swift attempting to qualify for a drinking game in Wisconsin was — wait for it — slag on those Doritos bags that were a few chips short of quelling the munchies!
February 13th, 2024 at 10:17AM
Stephen: Thanks for those links. Reading them now. BUT — some of the fiercest Trumpians are super-rich.
February 13th, 2024 at 4:33PM
UD: Yes, The Donald has more than a few super-rich fans, but not the Koch family, which sometimes provides amusement. There are also more than a few appliance technicians, air-conditioner maintainers, and powerboat owners who might not sit this election out.
I posted my reactions to those Stephens and Kotkin columns about an hour ago. I suspect we still have a lot to look forward to, besides those Doritos bags with fewer treats in them!