DARK AGES AMERICA

This is the Blog for MORRIS BERMAN, the author of "Dark Ages America". It includes current publications and random thoughts about U.S. Foreign Policy, including letters and reactions to publications from others. A cultural historian and social critic, MORRIS BERMAN is the author of "Wandering God" and "The Twilight of American Culture". Since 2003 he has been a visiting professor in sociology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Feel free to write and participate.

March 28, 2022

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So, Wafers, what can I tell you. This is from the last thread:

https://www.newsweek.com/karl-marx-study-room-name-changed-due-ukraine-russia-war-officials-say-1690072

College students, no less! Does it get any dumber? You know, when Toynbee did his assessment of collapsing civilizations, he was not able to name one that went under because it had turned into a joke. Honestly, I love this stuff. What next? Students burn an effigy of Tolstoy in Harvard Square? Don' laugh! A nation of clowns.

-mb