Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, receive hundreds of millions of dollars annually in benefits directly or indirectly from the federal government, not only in direct financial grants for research but indirectly through special preferences granted by the tax code.

Crow and Dabars don’t hold back in tearing down what they call the “Harvardization” of universities, where schools are responding to the higher education crisis by decreasing their acceptance rates and increasing their price tags, instead of trying to develop a better product that’s designed for the scale and type of demand we’re seeing today.