I met with Dean Jackson on February 2nd for about 45 minutes to discuss my research project. After spending 15 minutes discussing our shared admiration for the Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the Clone Wars television series, we got down to the business of talking about my project. We talked about his experience being a guest professor at the Central European University in Hungary and his thoughts on what the situation in Hungary. He pointed me towards cultural rather than institutional elements of democratic decline, explaining that the Hungarian government had recently started stationing heavily armed police on campus without any justifiable security reason as a sort of intimidation measure against the student body. When I mentioned my interest in nationalism’s role in democratic decline, he brought up his visit to the House of Terror museum in Hungary and the nationalist message that it radiates. He mentioned having a number of materials from the museum gathering dust on his desk and asked if I wanted to use them. I arranged to pick them up after he brought them into the office next week.