{"id":136750,"date":"2018-06-13T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136750"},"modified":"2018-06-15T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T05:28:27","slug":"a-fine-commencement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/a-fine-commencement-speech.html","title":{"rendered":"A fine commencement speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

So ignore most of the snarky commentary in the article around this speech, and just pop forward in the YouTube of the whole commencement ceremony to 1:08:16 or so to hear Danielle Allen of Harvard talk about democracy and civic engagement. It’s short and compelling.<\/p>\n

Also, and the reason this caught my eye, it was at my alma mater, Pomona College (though back in our<\/i> day, we held all that graduation stuff inside<\/i> the building behind them, not out on the quad … serves ’em right to get rained on).<\/p>\n

Anyway, good speech, under 10 minutes in length. And if you want, you can cut straight to the video.<\/a><\/p>\n


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\nA Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address<\/a><\/span>
\nAt Pomona College, Danielle Allen spoke about the Declaration of Independence and its electric cord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So ignore most of the snarky commentary in the article around this speech, and just pop forward in the YouTube of the whole commencement ceremony to 1:08:16 or so to hear Danielle Allen of Harvard talk about democracy and civic engagement. It’s short and compelling. Also, and the reason this caught my eye, it was … Continue reading “A fine commencement speech”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,9,358,46],"tags":[1678,1676,1677,1675],"class_list":["post-136750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-school-daze","tag-democracy","tag-engagement","tag-pomonacollege","tag-voting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/hillary.html","url_meta":{"origin":136750,"position":0},"title":"Hillary","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-12 11:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dig the pants. 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