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
May 16th, 2024 at 4:00PM
Butker’s a twerp, just like Reggie White was when he gave homophobic speeches a while back. The difference is that he’s not embarrassing the NFL in a game situation. Say the same thing in a post game interview and see how quickly he gets cut.
On another note, I do love when white liberals try to shut down ways for Black people to earn generational wealth. I’ll let all those players know there are jobs in the local garbage collection companies. I’m sure that doesn’t have any deleterious physical effects and the pay is just great.
May 16th, 2024 at 4:35PM
Total: Agree on the wealth point. But until the NFL takes concussions seriously, Zirin will continue to complain.
May 17th, 2024 at 5:48AM
Very few NFL players earn generational wealth. The average pro football career is only about three years, and the NFL–unlike the NBA and MLB–is notorious for offering non-guaranteed contracts, allowing owners to abandon the men with broken bodies with relative ease. Whether or not Zirin is a liberal, there’s nothing untrue about anything he said. And garbage collection (an honorable and, in some cities, decent-paying profession) is obviously not the only alternative available to pro football. I’m not suggesting shutting down the NFL and neither is Zirin, but there’s nothing wrong with pointing out the callous exploitation at the heart of America’s favorite sport.
As for Butker, he at least deserves credit for reminding us that the barefoot-and-pregnant crowd is large and growing, even if they generally try their best to fly under the radar, and that this is the way they actually talk when they think we’re not listening. Leave it to some loudmouth jock to give the game away.
May 17th, 2024 at 9:22AM
“Very few NFL players earn generational wealth”
The average NFL career is 3.3 years. The minimum salary is 800K in the first year and ascends each year after that. So that’s about 3 million dollars for an average career. There are a range of other benefits (including health care) that go with the player for years after they stop playing. That’s pretty substantial.
As for broken bodies, you think garbage collection, agricultural work, construction, etc., end up with much better results? Those are all in the top-10 most dangerous occupations in the US, and they sure as sh** don’t pay like the NFL. NFL players do not tend to come from economic backgrounds that feed them into nice happy office jobs. They end up doing the nasty stuff that white liberal pundits only know about from television, a knowledge level that lets them sanctimoniously blather on about things being “honorable” and “decent-paying.”
The NFL is absolutely exploitative, fueled by America’s insatiable desire for the sport, but then so is the rest of the economy.
May 17th, 2024 at 12:59PM
I’ve yet to hear of anyone being pancaked by a 300 pound garbage can that can run a 4.6 40, but I suppose anything is possible.
Also, I didn’t realize I was a liberal pundit (there’s gotta be generational wealth in that, right?), but I guess sincerity can sound like sanctimony to the wannabe world-weary cynic. You do you.
May 17th, 2024 at 4:36PM
“ I’ve yet to hear of anyone being pancaked by a 300 pound garbage can that can run a 4.6 40, but I suppose anything is possible”
Oh dude, proving my point. Have you heard of needle sticks? Glass cuttings? Getting hit by drivers who don’t want to wait behind a garbage truck? Heat stroke because your boss doesn’t want to waste good money and time on protective clothing and water breaks? Involuntary amputations because the construction company values time over safety?
May 17th, 2024 at 5:12PM
Sorry, UD, didn’t intend for things to go in this direction. I hope everyone has a beautiful weekend.
May 17th, 2024 at 5:16PM
TAFKAU: No problem.