Salem on the Thames

<p></p><p>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 conflict. <i>Salem on the Thames</i> captures the events as they unfolded and discusses topics such as Western sentiments concerning Israeli-Palestinian relations academics and free speech antisemitism and diversity on the college campus and social media and politics. The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards public shaming reminiscent of the Salem witch trials that deeply compromises the integrity of academia.</p><p></p>