That’s what Steven Miller of Nevada Policy Research Institute calls his state’s higher-education system here.

Bravo to Mr. Miller for seeing that Nevada doesn’t need to have a research university any more than every little country needs to have a national airline. Pouring money into UNLV won’t improve the state’s economy one bit, but will only transfer wealth from most of the citizens (the taxpayers) to a few of the citizens (those who are in on the university “improvements”).