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 17th, 2025 at 12:21PM
Losing skippers blame the wind.
Donald Trump might have had no business being nominated again, and yet he is again the president. So far no Theodore H. White has come forth to make sense of those Obama-Trump-Biden voters sitting 2024 out; Salena Zito might have something in progress but her biases are more evident.
A scolding from a neurotic professor on her way out of the country is unlikely to coax many of those voters back into the fold. Likewise, sprinkling a few Old Glories in among the usual array of third world and freak flags in gatherings of people more than a few of whom were, a year ago, probably reassuring all and sundry that Old Joe was still fine going to change many minds.
While all those gatherings were going on, the carping about the Army Day birthday parade went from “We don’t do North Korea” to “That marching was pathetic.” Even some Russian fanboys got in on the fun on You Tube.
Donald Trump is fortunate in his antagonists.
June 17th, 2025 at 4:31PM
He is indeed fortunate that some of his noisiest antagonists are idiots. He is fortunate that Joe Biden’s blind narcissism was enabled by an entire political class. Etc. But Marci Shore doesn’t seem to me any more neurotic than your typical brilliant intellectual; she seems morally sensible and rational. She may well be right that things in this country will deteriorate under Trumpism in a very dangerous way. He seems at the moment, for instance, to be taking us to war.
June 18th, 2025 at 11:23AM
You’re right about the war warnings. Wars, whether international or internal, are easier to start than to end, and the endings never turn out the way the war colleges game them out.
As far as Marci Shore, I have trouble squaring “morally sensible and rational” with “throwing up in a plastic bag” and going through with the “If [X] wins I’m moving to Canada” threat that I’ve been hearing from people for years. That puts her more in the “noisy antagonist” class than “typical brilliant intellectual”. Your mileage may vary.