Study Whatever You Want in College

The case for studying the humanities in college in 2018.by Rich SmithIf you treat your education as a means to an end, you're going to wind up shooting yourself in the head. Worse, you'll wind up dying long before they bury you. Worse still, you'll be so boring that nobody will even want to bury you.Though I have great respect for my colleague Lester Black, I couldn't disagree more with his advice for students. His "unpopular" suggestion to earn a degree in "the natural sciences" so as not to be