“Salem on the Thames is a collection of essays, but most of them, including a very helpful annotated chronology of events, are by Landes, who has also compiled an extensive archive of primary-source documents at his blog. He and his other contributors dissect each and every way Pessin was sucker punched, lied to, manipulated, and thrown under the bus.”

— Elliot Kaufman, Jewish Review of Books

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.

Table of Contents

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

Bibliography