The Ivy league is run like the mob. It's run for and by the families who built it, with occasional social promotion for made men. But once you're in, you're in and they take care of their own.It's easy to hate the Ivy League. Also, it's fun.
Yet rarely do hundreds of people cheer wildly as some crazy-haired guy calls for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to be shut down. That's right: closed entirely. Their campuses turned into luxury condos. Their students distributed evenly throughout the colleges of the Big Ten. Their endowments donated to charity, or used to purchase Canada.
It's the rest of the world, all those Big Ten schools, for example, that carry on naively believing in the meritocracy and education as an opportunity and a step up. Tear down the Ivies, and that might even be true some day.
