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
June 28th, 2024 at 6:36AM
Instead of rating it like a TV performance, what was actually said? A non stop barrage of lies by a convicted felon and sex offender. While Biden was rational all the way through, and Trump became more and more incoherent.
Can Biden be a good president? He is being a good president. Can he do the job well? He is doing the job well.
If the take away from the debate is that a candidate should drop out as unfit, it should be Trump.
June 28th, 2024 at 11:19AM
Matt: Having read tons of post-debate analyses and arguments, I conclude that four more years as president, when Biden is already mentally unreliable, would be a bad move. He really is, very simply, too old.
June 28th, 2024 at 1:28PM
If you are worried about a candidate’s age and mental condition impeding his performance, than I would be more concerned about the off brand Mussolini. And more worried about the people around him.
June 28th, 2024 at 1:39PM
Absolutely. The point is to do everything we can to defeat him. That means picking another Democrat.
June 29th, 2024 at 7:23AM
OK, so let’s say Biden can (somehow) be convinced to relinquish the job he’s been thirsting for his entire adult life, one that it turns out he’s pretty good at. Now what? The obvious choice is Kamala Harris, but she polls worse than Biden does. She wasn’t a particularly good debater last time and her backstory provides ample opportunities for the sexist scumbags of MAGA-land to charge her with sleeping her way to the top. Have people outside of California heard of Willie Brown? If Harris is the nominee, they will. (Obviously, none of this disqualifies the VP and one hopes that slut-shaming would backfire badly in 2024; rather, my point is that *any* Democrat chosen to replace Biden will be slimed in ways we can and cannot predict. Recall that the Democratic electorate settled on Biden in 2020 not out of enthusiasm, but out of a sense that he was the safest choice. Sadly, he may still be.)
But if you bypass the Vice President, what message are you sending to Black women, the most reliable Democratic constituency, one whose tireless efforts will be critical to winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia.
I can certainly see the case for Biden dropping out, but then, in my opinion, the only plausible option is Harris, possibly paired with an effective, take-no-prisoners VP candidate (Jamie Raskin? J.B Pritzker?). But even then it’s not clear you’ll come out ahead.
June 29th, 2024 at 7:37AM
TAFKAU: Both Raskin and Harris are too far left for the general electorate. I’m in love with Raskin (he’s my representative), but the rest of the country won’t be.
I take your point – ditching Biden means an entry into the unknown. But for instance take the sliming problem you mention – a younger faster feisty candidate will revel in this and powerfully turn it against Mr Slime himself. I think Dems need to roll up their sleeves, pick a charismatic centrist, and tough it out. It’s risky, but I think it’s the only viable path.
Harris is not viable. I think most black voters are able to be as pragmatic about that as I am. She’s hopelessly affiliated with liberal San Francisco – a comically easy target, just as Newsom would be. I have no idea why people are mentioning him as a possible candidate.
In a perfect world, Dems would run Buttigieg. He’s close to perfection. But the country’s not ready for a married gay guy.
June 29th, 2024 at 11:25AM
Not quite topic drift: Chevron is reversed. Should a Democrat, including Old Joe, secure the presidency, the ability of that president or the cabinet secretaries to rule by decree has just been attenuated, and the litigation is already being prepared. Leave my gas stove and ceiling fan alone, for openers. (On the other hand, Pete McKinsey could secretly welcome that sort of litigation, it might get those electric car chargers built more quickly! Yeah, some days about all one can do is enjoy the spectacle.)
The real fun comes in the event of a return of The Donald. The fisheries case just holed his Project 2025 below the waterline, bigly. Imagine when his chosen cabinet secretaries and those underlings he’d like to replace the current GS-15s with start revising regulations and the litigation from the likes of the Sierra Club and the various civil rights organizations begins.
As far as a “charismatic centrist,” that’s interesting, although it would require the Donks to do in public, before the convention, the conjuring trick by which James Clyburn and a few party pros got Old Joe nominated and the Sanders platform approved. I don’t know how many of those swing voters are ticked off at what came after that conjuring trick. They voted for the anodyne Democrat and they got open borders and Weimar America. But if you want to be either amused or annoyed, visit Common Dreams just about any day and see how the people who wrote the Sanders platform are ticked off, bigly, about any attempt by Old Joe on a lucid day or his handlers every day to do anything to acknowledge with a policy change what those swing voters thought they were getting.
All I know is that having two national conventions nearby, and a new train with Business Class seating serving Milwaukee, that some road trips in July and August to see the spectacle are in the works!
June 29th, 2024 at 12:10PM
A new train? As my Euro husband loves to remind me, America doesn’t do passenger trains. So that IS exciting news.
The gist of your comment – that the Dem. party is hopelessly sclerotic – I disagree with. Admittedly, the resolution of the Biden problem will tend to prove me right or wrong.
June 29th, 2024 at 4:49PM
UD: Best to Mr UD, and he’d best not get me started on how the USA used to do passenger trains. (Well, he could hit the ferroequinology category on my Cold Spring Shops and see!) The new train: Wisconsin and Minnesota came up with some money to extend one trip each day from Milwaukee to the Cities. It’s a far cry from the days of the Afternoon Zephyr that at one time had a schedule, St. Paul to Chicago, that makes today’s Baltimore to Boston Acela look pathetic.
Libertarian Tories don’t get involved in intramural spats among Democrats. We might drink Sprecher and buy a lot of popcorn. With the Brewers going to lead the NL Central at Independence Day, life is good. Enjoy Freedom Week, at the beach or what have you.