I mention these facts not to discount the seriousness of what is happening in Hungary but to point to a global context in which the academy as we have conceived it is threatened on two fronts, by right-wing populists and/or religious fundamentalists who see what the academy does as unpatriotic, blasphemous, or both, and by what might be called technocratic globalization, facilitated by the very technologies that we use in attempts like this one to mobilize support for causes too easy to write off as too local, too distant, too disconnected from “my” reality to energize opposition from any but those most directly affected. Having discarded old grand narratives and failed to create new ones, we lack a global foundation on which to build global resistance to events like the one in Hungary. We can share our indignation on Facebook or try to create a Twitter storm. But if that is all we can do, our plight is dire, indeed.