Professor DeLeon: City's Progressive Movement Loses its 'Ideological Super Ego'

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- Rich DeLeon, a retired professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University and a historian of the city’s left, said the progressive movement has lost its “ideological super ego.” He said the Guardian’s demise is “sad. But it is kind of like your great-grandfather dying at 95. It led a good life and it was extremely influential at some point.”