Consider the state of three longstanding, once (and arguably still) powerful institutions: the University of Missouri, the sports cable channel ESPN, and Marvel Comics. As our former colleague Jillian Kay Melchior detailed earlier this week, the University of Missouri is paying a hefty price for becoming the face of angry leftist protests in 2015. Students claimed the administration was ignoring racial bigotry and more or less took over campus, forcing the resignation of the university system’s president and the campus’s chancellor ...

August 23 2017

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Parasitic Progressivism at ESPN, Marvel, and the University of Missouri

Jim Geraghty

Consider the state of three longstanding, once (and arguably still) powerful institutions: the University of Missouri, the sports cable channel ESPN, and Marvel Comics. As our former colleague Jillian Kay Melchior detailed earlier this week, the University of Missouri is paying a hefty price for becoming the face of...

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