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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 1st, 2025 at 11:03AM
First, with respect to the headline, why is anyone even debating “[w]hether Elon Musk’s salute was intended or not.” Of course it was intended. It’s not as though it was some involuntary Strangelovian twitch. Everyone knows what that gesture represents in today’s world. Either he did it to troll the libs or, in the exhilaration of the moment, he set his inhibitions aside and revealed himself in public. Neither, obviously, speaks well of him. But he can no more plausibly claim this was some sort of Roman salute (that he probably saw on Star Trek) than someone who spraypaints a swastika on a government building can claim they are honoring the Navajo Nation.
As for our immunity from fascism, I am skeptical, though, to be honest, I’m more concerned that circumstances are gathering that could lead to world war: incompetent, but ambitious leadership in key countries, millions of disaffected, underskilled young men on every continent, fraying of international institutions, the worldwide rise of nationalism/populism, technological capabilities that are outpacing our ability to understand and control them, and a void in global leadership that should be, but at least temporarily won’t be, filled by the United States.
February 2nd, 2025 at 6:27AM
TAFKAU: Agreed on the salute: Inarguably intended, and presumably a mix of juvenility and fascist proclivities.
I’m more inclined to worry in the direction of limited wars/civil wars, than a big flare-up. The movement – even with heavy breathing about Greenland/Panama – seems more about withdrawing into ‘we’re the greatest’ nationalisms than about international aggression.