In the Spring of 2015, student activists stampeded 200 professors at Connecticut College into publicly shaming one of their colleagues in the name of fighting hate speech. The Pessin affair offers a case study of a 'staged moral emergency,' a new and spreading phenomenon in our society, so prone to media-driven feeding frenzies.
Richard Landes trained as a medieval historian. He specializes in messianic and apocalyptic movements, as well as honor-shame 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.
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