I'm usually suspicious of state-phobia/"no big government" themes because there's usually a host of prejudices and nasty fallback concepts undergirding things, but as a person struggling with student loan debt (I know, I know, unlike everyone else on the site amirite) this hits home in a big way.

But as far as policy debate goes, the university system is a trainwreck of financial demand and is only going to get worse. Maybe Peter we need to do other things than college, but that isn't very responsive to historically sedimented structural inequities (I know, I know, meritocracy is best, etc). A discussion of free schools is underway in Britain, but I feel that presents a chicken-or-the-egg problem.

What do we do?