The best and boldest commencement address of 2024 was delivered not by a poet, politician, or eggheaded intellectual but by a kicker, the NFL’s Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs. He delivered the speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic college — a genuinely Catholic college — in Atchison, Kansas. Benedictine was among the 24 colleges recommended in our spring 2023 print edition of The American Spectator, a special issue on education. Yes, among the nearly 4,000 institutions of higher ed in America, we could identify only two dozen worthy of your children and your money.
A sad, sorry statement on American higher education.
But Benedictine is a blessed exception, and the little college in Kansas vindicated our recommendation this May 2024 by inviting the Chiefs’ kicker to come to the dais and give a swift kick in the pants to bad Catholics — he referred to bad Catholic President Joe Biden — to…
