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They need to scale up, not abolish. Abolish would only make the other Ivies even more exclusive.

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They don’t need to scale up, there are 3000 other institutions of higher learning in America

Right. For some reason the author thinks abolishing is easier?

> Since we can’t change Yale, we have to tear it down.

Maybe the author thinks a similar "revolution" would ripple to other Ivys?

Defund, abolish, hyperbole.

His point is specifically that they refuse to scale up because of what they fundamentally wish to be/represent.

The Ivies are not homogeneous. Yale cannot hide amongst the other institutions to camouflage the uniquely deleterious impact it imposes.

Why is Yale unique here?

Yale has unique historic and ongoing ties to the bureaucratic apparatus of the country. These have been/are exploited for the unique benefit of the institution and its associates. Harvard, (in particular some elements of the law school), are getting in on this game more on the direct "policy" level than ever historically. Take, for example, Harvard's new institutional bias toward "Lawfare."

The CIA is basically an offshoot of Yale, more specifically of the Skull and Bones Society.

Why? Why do they have to do either?

I personally don’t think they need to do either, but one argument is that since they receive public funds, they have some duty to serve the public’s best interest.

They’re are some colleges that won’t even accept the GI Bill because they won’ don’t want those entanglements.[1] At least they put their money where their mouth is.

[1] https://www.hillsdale.edu/admissions-aid/freedom-scholarship...

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