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
January 21st, 2009 at 10:42AM
… and her delivery fit with the etherized, bureaucratic trait Kirsch pointed out.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:48AM
She used dreaded "poet voice," where you go up to the same pitch on every accented syllable, and accent words that don’t need to be:
ALL aBOUT US is NOISE
It was painful to listen to.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:49PM
Inaugural poetry has not been a success — we’re. what oh-for-four, counting Frost’s problems. There must be a better way. Maybe we should just go with the bureaucratic approach, and have the incumbent poet laureate do it.
February 7th, 2015 at 2:56PM
In the New Yorker (2/9/15) Elizabeth Alexander has a moving account of her marriage to an Eritrean refugee, Ficre Gebreyesus, his sudden death of heart disease at fifty, and the ensuing grief of herself and their two sons. It’s moving, authentic, and not in the least bureaucratic. The happy fact of sun in his eyes led Frost to recite from memory at JFK’s inaugural, not the poem he had written for the occasion, but another poem, “The Gift Outright,” which is a fine poem, if somewhat, by today’s standards, imperialistic. “The land was ours, before we were the land’s”, it begins, raising the question of whose it was before it was “ours,” a question that would hardly occur to many European-Americans in 1961. But it accurately describes the psychological processes of taking over a new continent, while one is still as much at home mentally in the old country as in this new, still alien, land (with natives intermittently shooting at you). The difference between Frost and Alexander may be a matter of a greater versus a lesser talent (with which even she wd probably not disagree) But if Frost had been able to read the poem he made for the occasion, he might have fared no better than she did. An occasion can sometimes summon forth a good poem, but the problem is that whether it does so or not, you HAVE to recite it. She’d better, perhaps, have done what Frost was forced to do – read an older and better poem, even if it had no explicit connection to the occasion.