Preparing for the event in the previous post, I watched or read about 15 commencement speeches.

These stand out:

• “The Sinews of Peace” aka “Iron Curtain Speech” —Winston Churchill, 1946 Westminster College

• “The Strategy of Peace” — JFK, 1963 American University

• “Cargo Cult Science” — Richard Feynman, 1974 Caltech

• “This is Water” — David Foster Wallace, 2005 Kenyon College