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UD is...
"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Sunday, December 05, 2004

ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, THE END
OF ANY INCLINATION UD MIGHT HAVE HAD
TO IDEALIZE THE WRITING SKILLS
OF JUNIORS AT YALE




"The ivory tower, in this sense, is not isolated from the world but from the ravages of jingoism. Unable to stomach political difference like a plate of escargot, conservatives belch 'Witch!' and let the Inquisition begin."



Yale Daily News, December 3, 2004