It’s that time of year again. Parents, relatives, siblings and friends traipse happily onto football fields and into auditoriums to finally hand over their children to the adult world.
In his commencement address at Lehigh University, filmmaker Ken Burns told cap-and-gown-clad collegians to be wary of “a worrisome fundamentalism we rightfully decry in the larger world that has been creeping into our own normally tolerant and progressive society.