We met over lunch with the founder of Liquid
Reason, an interesting Website whose purpose is to teach young
people social marketing. I also answered quite a few press calls that
arose from yesterday’s press conference. Reporters are mainly interested
in what is actually a fairly peripheral topic: the size of the decline
in youth turnout since 1972. In the evening, I briefed students from
University of Maryland and other Maryland state campuses about the Rhodes
Scholarship. I tried to persuade them that the application process can
be valuable, even though the odds of success are very low, because writing
an application essay forces you to come up with a provisional plan of
life just at the point when you are finishing college and your future
is less planned than it has ever been before.