Salem on the Thames

Richard Landes trained as a medieval historian. He specializes in messianic and apocalyptic movements, as well as shame-honor cultures and the impact of literacy on their dynamics. He has recently completed a history of the opening years of the twenty-first century, as a turning point in relations between two millennial movements: global Jihad and post-modern progressivism.

Preface — Richard Landes
Introduction — Asaf Romirowsky
Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge
Condensed Timeline
Part I: When Criticizing Hamas Became a Campus Hate Crime — Richard Landes
1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor
2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim
3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style
Part II: Studies in Pessinology
4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency — Ashley Thorne
5. "I Was Rude, You Were Evil": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin — John Gordon
6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues — Fred Baumann
Part III: Reflections: Salem on the Thames – Stampeding a Herd of Cats — Richard Landes
7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us
8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015
9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism
Part IV: Appendix – Documents
Pessin Affair: Dramatis Personae — Online Petition Posted March 18, 2015
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