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
March 8th, 2025 at 12:23PM
The “fringe” epidemiologists at…Stanford? You might be interested in this book by some fringe politics scientists at fringe Princeton: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691267135/in-covids-wake.
March 8th, 2025 at 5:26PM
To paraphrase Lady Bracknell, a position at an excellent university is no guarantee of respectability of thought.
March 8th, 2025 at 9:57PM
Lol true, but looking at the blurbs on that Macedo/Lee book, the fringe position seems to be winning sufficient support to start looking kind of mainstream.
March 10th, 2025 at 5:51PM
Blurbs. Well, I guess they’re shorter and easier to understand then peer review.
March 11th, 2025 at 3:10PM
Might be of interest: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-coronavirus-consensus-was-wrong?sra=true.
I suppose Princeton UP still puts manuscripts through peer review.
March 11th, 2025 at 9:32PM
Ah, nothing like a pair of political scientists armed with 20/20 hindsight (or, in this case, I guess we’d call it 2020 hindsight). But since this conversation started with a discussion of Dr. Bhattacharya, we should note that the good doctor’s initial contribution to the discourse was a coauthored WSJ oped piece (in March 2020) suggesting that fear of the virus was likely wildly overstated, and that the final death toll could be as low as 20,000. Such a take was fringey at the time, and has obviously been rendered permanently fringey in the wake of over one million American deaths. If Collins, Fauci and the rest got several things wrong, their mistakes were at least grounded in a firmer understanding of the potential lethality of the virus than Bhattacharya possessed. Unfortunately, Macedo and Lee hadn’t yet figured it all out, so Fauci and colleagues had to do their best in real time with overwhelmed hospitals, inadequate equipment, and a president who was recommending horse dewormer and Clorox. (This is not a knock on Macedo and Lee, who are good social scientists. I’m sure their intention is to inform future pandemic-fighting efforts rather than providing grist for the inevitable army of Monday morning quarterbacks.)