From WSJopinion: The VP’s speech was one of the worst 2021 commencement addresses. Purdue University President Mitch Daniels’s might have been the best, writes gerardtbaker.
Ms. Harris’s attempt at gender-inclusive, environment-friendly comedy elicited an appreciative and raucous peal of laughter—but only from her. The rest of the audience looked like they wanted to crawl under the nearest solar panel.
Commencement speeches are a tough act; those curious occasions where faculty and parents and dignitaries smile uneasily across a generational gulf as their charges just want to get the party started. There were better graduation addresses this year, ones that spoke to the values that have made this country great, rather than the bilge drained onto our hapless new young military officers.
Best of all, though, might have been the speech given down the road at Purdue University by its president, Mitch Daniels. The former Indiana governor excoriated the timorous, risk-averse mindset that captured much of the elite in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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