In my opinion, having watched parts of the debate, Vivek Wadhwa and his colleague were setup to fail in the debate. It is not necessarily because they themselve

In my opinion, having watched parts of the debate, Vivek Wadhwa and his colleague were setup to fail in the debate. It is not necessarily because they themselves were wrong but because the way the argument and the debate were presented. Given the massive amount of problems with Higher-ed, it is very easy to argue against it by pointing out the obvious and the non-trivial problems. As such, Wadhwa was always on the backfoot trying to defend something which has inherent flaws. If you turn the tables, and have Peter Thiel provide a solid policy prescription and then have Wadhwa poke holes, I think they would easily come on top in the debate.