Hey, Ezra get a clue

The small state scale problem as in:

College enrollment crisis hitting Vermont especially hard

The room had gathered to take stock of a community trauma: Green Mountain College, after nearly 200 years in the community, would close after commencement in May.
Costello asked the room to spend the first 15 minutes airing concerns about the challenges to come. GMC provost Tom Mauhs-Pugh, a resident of the town, got the ball rolling: When the college would close, he said, about $7 million in direct payroll would leave Poultney and surrounding communities.
The long-simmering crisis in higher education as college enrollment rates decline – which has been plaguing the Northeast and Midwest most acutely – is now hitting Vermont exceptionally hard. In the first quarter of 2019 alone, three private colleges have announced they will close. A fourth is on probation with its accreditor.

Instead Ezra wants to blame philosophical errors:

Ezra Klein: Why We're Polarized https://www.google.com/books/edition/Why_We_re_Polarized/1G6gDwAAQBAJ: 'Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future—from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein.... The 2016 election wasn’t surprising at all. In fact, Trump’s electoral victory followed the exact same template as previous elections, by capturing a nearly identical percentage of voter demographics as previous Republican candidates. Over the past 50 years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. Those merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. In this groundbreaking book, Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and each other. And he traces the feedback loops between our polarized political identities and our polarized political institutions that are driving our political system towards crisis. Neither a polemic nor a lament, Klein offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. A revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself... 

So he fails to find the micro cause, it is a built in to the Constitution.   The small states are going extinct because of national programs like education, retirement and medicine. They cannot scale up and lose population.

These small states so not scale the way Californi, Texas and Calizuela scale.

We need fewer bogus economists who resort to philosophy and more economists who drill down and find the micro issues.