Advice to graduates: Doze off during the commencement speeches

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell This is the season of college commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times. Two themes seem to dominate commencement speeches. One is shameless self-advertising by people in government, or in related organizations supported by the taxpayers or […]
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