Not an American, but I will bite. Neither education nor media seem to me an obvious public good, unlike, say, clean air. Private actors should definitely be al

Not an American, but I will bite. Neither education nor media seem to me an obvious public good, unlike, say, clean air. Private actors should definitely be allowed to teach or publish news. And Harvard et al. aren't really a monopoly in any sense. There is a shitton of other universities across the US. The Ivies are prestigious, yes, but logically, you can't have a shitton of prestigious institutions.