Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a historian living in Jerusalem. His work focuses on apocalyptic and millennial beliefs at the turn of the first and second millennium, 1000 and 2000 CE (The Apocalyptic Year 1000 (2003); Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience, 2011). He coined the term
Pallywood in 2003 while investigating the
Muhammad al Durah affair and maintains a blog critical of Western journalism,
The Augean Stables. His forthcoming book: Can “The Whole World” be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Generation Caliphate (Academic Studies Press, 2022).
Moral Narcissism + The Psychology of Failure
May 2022:In the 21st century, a utopian discourse that deconstructs power and prejudice and detects their workings everywhere, has spread from radical pockets of academia to become the coin of the realm.
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