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Graduation Week With Common Sense
Graduation Week With Common Sense
The United States Air Force Academy graduation ceremony at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs in May 2013. (Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
What happens on campus doesn’t stay on campus.
By Bari Weiss
05.23.22 — Education
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Graduation Week With Common Sense

There is no more reliable cliché in the news business than “if it bleeds it leads.” But the rule of thumb that was just as dependable, if not quite as catchy, in the years I spent at legacy newspapers is this one: campus craziness sells. It sold to readers of The Wall Street Journal just as reliably as it did to readers of The New York Times. If conserv…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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