When I wrote this on a sunny Evanston morning, the power-addled president of this country taunted the world with “Will I, won ...

Around the one-year anniversary of Roger Federer's viral commencement speech, The Athletic tried to find out why the speech was resonated.

The task for commencement speakers is a bit trickier than usual: They have to navigate a highly charged political landscape, all while inspiring the next generation.

But recently, I've noticed that there are a lot of games with a less likely word in the title: ‘human’. Starry Studio's new post-apocalyptic survival game, Once Human, got me thinking about this and, ...

A 2005 speech by the writer David Foster Wallace to the graduating class of Kenyon College, titled “ This Is Water,” circulated online as a transcript in the pre-social-media days and, in 2009 ...

It often passes without us knowing, much like the fish who didn’t recognize water in David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, we are swimming in time, not noticing it as it ...

The other frequently cited candidate for best graduation speech — one actually given at a college (Kenyon) by a writer (David Foster Wallace) — does something similar.

Among the most famous commencement addresses was by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in 2005. In his most oft-quoted phrase, he said: “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, ...