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Commencement Speeches

potus May 17, 2020

Obama Is Sorry You’re Stuck at Home ‘Playing Board Games or Watching Tiger King’Watch his commencement speech for the class of 2020.

By Devon Ivie
politics Apr. 30, 2016

Bloomberg Goes After Trump, Sanders in AddressThose who won’t run, teach.

By Chas Danner
commencement speeches June 5, 2015

Justice Scalia Reminds Graduates (Again) That Being Hitler Is Bad“Never compromise your principles, unless of course your principles are Adolf Hitler’s.”

By Jaime Fuller
just ask chuck schumer June 6, 2014

Schumer Tells Same Breakup Story Over and Over“I said to myself, ‘What a loser you are.’”

By Caroline Bankoff
education May 15, 2014

The Alleged Offenses of 2014’s Disinvited Commencement SpeakersFrom war crimes to not being important enough.

By Adam K. Raymond
commencement speeches June 17, 2012

Bill Clinton Talks Privilege and Genetics at Nephew’s High-School GraduationIn Redondo Beach, California.

By Andre Tartar
ink-stained wretches May 29, 2011

Jonathan Franzen Knows What Love Is“Whenever I looked at a bird, I could feel my heart overflow with love.”

By Mike Vilensky