Culture and Politics

Next Tuesday, millions of Americans will head to the polls to cast a ballot in this year’s midterm elections. Please make sure you are one of them.

Sadly, if past trends prevail, less than 40 percent of the voting-age population will do so, proving once again that the American public is largely apathetic to its politics.

Carl Paladino has unabashedly run as an outsider in his campaign for New York’s governorship.

I’ve heard it argued that the problem with Americans is the demand for immediate fulfillment and material goods that permeates our society. We’ve been charged with being self-centered people, unaware of the world around us. Though there may be some truth to the statement on the whole, I disagree with the last point. Americans are acutely aware of global issues.

The most important question isn’t “what came first–the chicken or the egg?” It’s “who could have ever come up with the idea of recreating international institutions’ inner procedures for decision-making as a form of a multicultural educational activity?” In other words, who could have ever created Model United Nations? The very first conference was held 56 years ago by Harvard University.