Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College - Paperbackby Richard Landes (Author) This compelling volume focuses on the story of Andrew Pessin, a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College, who was accused by students and faculty of having "directly condoned the extermination of a people" based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli Palestinian conict. Author Biography Richard Landes trained as a medieval historian. He specializes in messianic and apocalyptic