"A Social Arrangement That Is Legal, but Not Moral"

"If people groaning under the weight of student loans simply said, 'Enough,' then all the pieties about debt that have become absorbed into all the pieties about higher education might be brought into alignment with reality. Instead of guaranteeing loans, the government would have to guarantee a college education. There are a lot of people who could learn to live with that, too."


Lee Siegel in The New York Times argues that college graduates should stop paying off their student loans.