'Mob rule" is how Heritage Foundation fellow Andrew Kloster described protests by black students that forced University of Missouri president Timothy M. Wolfe to resign Monday. That may be what it looked like from his conservative perch, but to me the students provided an imperfect example of how people with the least power can engineer change in America. I say imperfect because in the end it took money to get the attention the students sought in pointing out Wolfe's apparent indifference to several racist incidents. The university stood to lose a million dollars if its football team carried out a threat to show solidarity with the protesters by not playing in Saturday's game against Brigham...
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