A fascinating analysis of the language of commencement speeches. How to save our digital history. Should the digital humanities even be a thing? Predictive modeling, criminals, and racial bias.
Graduation season is upon us again, and with it comes the vacant, cliché-ridden literary animal that is the graduation speech. Over at Lit Hub, Emily Harnett revisits David Foster Wallace’s…
Electric Literature posts a graduation speech from Vonnegut; he riffs on World War II, busboys, ambition, and suicide notes: A young woman told me a couple of years ago that…