Greenwald/The Guardian

Edward Snowden: "I do not expect to see home again."

In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappearedrecorded a bit
— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) June 8, 2013

repeat.
Rick Perlstein:

"...Philip Agee was never part of any solution, just another facet of the shadow world’s ever proliferating strangeness."

Disengagement is passivity. American liberals are becoming engaged; the culture of American liberalism is changing.
The academy is changing; intellectual academicism is not.