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
September 11th, 2025 at 6:09AM
Saint Charlie, martyr to the cause. Justification for further violence, I’m sure.
September 11th, 2025 at 6:53AM
Possibly. Add universal guns to a serious political/cultural schism, and you can certainly expect a big mess.
September 11th, 2025 at 11:53AM
“UD stopped watching MSNBC when she realized she’d been an idiot for believing their smug insistence that Trump would never win.”
I kept watching it through the election, mostly because I wanted to hear the arguments for Harris. It seems that they mostly boiled down to “She’s not Trump.” True enough but probably not a winning platform.
I ended up voting third party protest in 2024, as also did in 1980, 2016, and 2020.
Haven’t watched any TV for the last two months. My grandson lost the remote, and I haven’t found it. I don’t much miss TV, and I plan to drop my cable coverage.
Haven’t given up Internet yet . . . .
September 11th, 2025 at 12:35PM
Third party vote? Thanks for helping elect Trump! Every little bit counted.
September 11th, 2025 at 1:57PM
Thirty caliber deer rifle at 200 yards. I have cousins who could tell me how much elevation to compensate for, experience learned in a deer stand. Not one of those so-called assault rifles, and, thanks to the hunters who vote, not likely to be banned or more closely regulated.
As far as the mess to come, between the Charlottesville trolley knifing and “they” killed Charlie Kirk, yes, there are probably Militant Normals spoiling for a fight. So far, that seems to be confined to posturing on social media.
Buckle in.
September 12th, 2025 at 12:33AM
Thanks for the details on the gun, Stephen.
September 12th, 2025 at 4:20AM
We stopped watching tv long ago, JND. For us, it’s all internet.