Recruited By the NSA

The Progressive - On July 1, I awoke to find two new emails in my inbox. The first was from the Central Eurasian Studies Summer Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and announced that, “The NSA is coming to YOUR CAMPUS.” The second was from a colleague who had moved away from Madison a few years ago to teach Russian in Massachusetts: “Dear Jesse, I hope you attend this and heckle them!” I took a gulp of coffee and shot back a quick response: “I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”  Read more.