(Director’s note: In the summer of 2008, I had just arrived at my destination in Istanbul, connected to wifi, checked my email, and saw that I had a received a message from Will Cathcart, Clemson English, Class of 2005. In it, Will rightly predicted that Russia was about to invade the country of Georgia, and announced that he was boarding a plane to go interview the then President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. The invasion announced the arrival of a multipolar world, and established a pattern Russia would repeat in Crimea, the Ukraine, and Syria. Will, who has lived in and reported from Georgia ever since, was inducted in the Clemson Alumni Council’s Roaring 10 in 2014. His reporting can be seen in CNN, Foreign Policy, and, most frequently, seems to me, The Daily Beast. There, his editor was “renowned foreign correspondent,” Christopher Dickey, whose father, James Dickey, author of Deliverance, was a student at Clemson for his first year of college, before serving in World War II (and later graduating from USC). Christopher Dickey, a regular visitor to and speaker at Clemson over the years, passed away on July 16th. In a new post on Lit Hub, Will reflects on the loss of a friend, an advocate, and an editor. This is Clemson Humanities Now.)