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One of the recurring themes in Year One of Trump II has been resistance vs. capitulation. Early in the Trump administration, leaders who should have known better tried appeasement. It didn’t work.

The appeasers included several college presidents, law firms, and owners of large media organizations with other business interests that a corrupted government could help or hurt. But appeasement only invited more extortion.

A year later, Columbia University’s lovely urban campus...