Menashi's argument is that Dartmouth students need fraternities as counterweight, not the administration or even necessarily the institution as a whole. The dangers of unchecked power are to those without it. The proper analogy is that the rest of world needs intermediary institutions (i.e. the United Nations) as a counterweight to U.S. power. The U.S. on the other hand would best serve it's interests by eliminating those counterweights. As it happens, I think this revised analogy is in most respects correct (the ways it's not will have to wait for another day). But right or wrong, nothing in it makes much of a case for U.S. citizens to support checks on U.S. power."