Topic: Commencement Speeches

Graduates

"Just be yourself" is nonsense

Jesse Browner
Image for Stephen Colbert warns graduates: Fight racism and climate change or prepare to live in a

Colbert's commencement speech

Colin Gorenstein
Image for Dear graduates: Don't follow your dreams (A commencement speech for the mediocre)

Dear grads: Forget your dreams

Tim Donovan
Image for Congratulations, by the way: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders and fighting the TED Talks-ization of commencement speeches

Foster Wallace vs. TED Talks!

Luke Epplin
Image for Barack Obama: Incidental black man?

"Nobody cares if you suffered"

Rich Benjamin
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