While I have nothing against the “Today” show’s Matt Lauer , he’s still best known to me as the guy Tom Cruise called “glib.” I suspect I’m not alone in this category either. Regardless, the AP reports that Lauer is slotted to give the Senior Class Day speech...

At some point in high school, I imagine every resident of Massachusetts read Jonathan Swift’s “ A Modest Proposal .” The point of the mandatory exercise, as far as I recall, was detecting satire. In this specific instance, one learns that Swift did not really condone the roasting,...