A good commencement speech is not aimed at posterity, proffered to everyone for all time. Instead, it is a temporary moment in which a speaker brings a community together in the moment they share ...

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Donovan Livingston knew the stakes were high this year when he was asked to deliver a commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches. Ten years ago, he was ...