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Go Ahead, Major In Philosophy. You’ll Still Get A Job

College students with ambitious career plans usually gravitate to business schools, law schools, maybe medicine. George Anders joins us to talk about taking a different approach – seeking a broad education that will be more dynamic in the long run. He writes about the idea in “You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Education”

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Go Ahead, Major In Philosophy. You’ll Still Get A Job