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  1. Either economics or public policy. (I first thought of doing history but didn't want to end up permanently unemployed. No offense to any history majors lol.)
  2. Hi kids. So I consider myself a classical liberal and a believer in objective morality and natural law grounded in man's nature, which I think the secondary literature on Ayn Rand shows she provided solid ground for. Almost everyone else on my campus at the University of Toronto is either politically apathetic or a socialist-egalitarian of some kind. You will not be surprised to hear that the professors don't question the basic premises of collectivism. I remember the first week, we got a lecture on Benjamin Constant where liberalism was presented as this kind of bizarre, dated curiosity in which men of extraordinary naivety dabbled in ages past but which no one could possibly take seriously nowadays. "I'm presenting Constant to you at his best," said my stout prof, "so you can evaluate his arguments for yourself. Of course, I'm gonna turn around and debunk everything he ever said." That was the lecture on Marx, the following week. Oddly enough, I never heard him mention anything about debunking Marx (which is not hard: see Bohm-Bawerk). A questionnaire I had to fill on my first day asked me, "How should university expenses be divided between government and families?" Nobody asks, "Should we have a centrally planned education system or not?" Considering that universities are non-profits who have no economic incentives to pursue cost-cutting measures (and lots of political incentives to avoid them), as well the huge amount of resources government pumps into post-secondary in the form of subsidies and student loans have increased the demand for education beyond the available restricted supply and been the main contributor to increased tuition fees, I think the answer is obvious. Anyway, I need a break from the immoral, destructive nonsense that's constantly shoved down my throat. Hope to make some friends here.