Free Speech Graduation Speeches, "Hate Speech," and the CUNY Law Controversy Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 1:01 PM ...

In 1997 — which some of us remember as an earlier, more carefree era of internet disinformation — graduation remarks supposedly delivered at M.I.T. by the writer Kurt Vonnegut made the rounds ...

I had a friend named Tracy who was a good runner, and on Lap 4, she'd tell me to start taking bigger steps. "Hang in there," she'd tell me. "We're almost done." ...

Making graduation speeches used to be fairly conventional. But change is so rapid that the old rules no longer apply. Good luck, kids.

College graduation. Commencement. Whatever you call it. It's here. I have no idea as to how to act or what to do. And, in the dying throes of my column, I go down blaming pop culture. We all knew ...