Higher Education

If you major in the humanities, you’ll throw approximately $100,000 (not to mention four years of youthful vigor)  at tenured, distinguished Marxists who will tell you that money and status are terrible things.  If you major in the sciences, often your best bets after graduation involve:  making things to blow up foreigners who never posed any threat to anyone, inserting “climate change” somewhere in your grant proposal to put any and all weather variations under suspicion, or prescribing drugs to people who don’t need them.

Abrupt topic switch:  I know I’m surely not the first to observe this, but why is it that the things liberals most vehemently insist should be free wind up costing more and more every year (e.g. education and healthcare?)  P.J. O’Rourke semi-famously said  “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free,” but that statement doesn’t encapsulate how trying to make things more affordable, through subsidies, also drives up the cost so even fewer people can afford them than before.  At least, it’s not spelled out, and expecting people to pick up on subtlety  and nuance seems a bit optimistic.  <end rant>