A lot is changing, and you can either choose to participate or not. But you don’t get a free pass by saying that nothing you do matters, because it does matter.

The Arab world is exploding. Angered citizens in Egypt and Tunisia have ousted their governments. Riots and protests are breaking out in every Muslim nation from Mauretania to Iran. Videos […]

The hype of 2008 is officially dead. The faddish adulation of Obama, which promised to permanently draw millions of disengaged, apathetic young voters into the political process, has collapsed in the death throes of 2010’s low turnout.

It’s quite easy to be apathetic, especially at college. We live in a bubble of intellectually stimulating classes and discourse, safe from the harsh realities of the outside world.