This is a pretty good article overall criticizing Scott Galloway's article on the high cost of college tuition. Still (and I say this without malice) it feels like it's just touting the party line. Yes, colleges provide discounts to some students, but at the same time Galloway is not wrong when he says higher tuition is a result of "is a function of limiting the supply of freshman seats at our best universities in concert with the continued fetishization of their brands." And he's not wrong when he says "Student loan debt ($1.7 trillion) is now greater than credit card debt." Alexander defends tuition costs by pointing the salaries paid to highly qualified professors, and compares it to other services such as health care or law. Nobody outside the U.S. would take such an argument seriously.
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