The vast majority of the tournament games are being played by teams from public universities in states whose governments are hostile to public universities.
It’s time to give up the idea that every young person has to go to college, and start offering high-school seniors an alternative route into the middle class.
Based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching the birth of a new American political system and way of governing for which, as yet, we have no name.