BIG THOUGHTS HERE. I have an article on the content of LW’s speech coming out in a few days. Meanwhile, I agree with Pat Deneen that it would have been better had the speech actually had some humanistic content. But one speech can’t do everything, and rare is the commencement address that does anything.
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