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.

September 02, 2024

Shifting to Substack

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Wafers- This blog will remain available for previous posts, but I am switching over to substack: morrisberman.substack.com As you all kno...
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August 14, 2024

Postscript: A Passion for Cruelty: A Nation Spinning Out of Control

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In Gaza, Israel Lost What Remained of Its Humanity. —Gideon Levy, Haaretz , 24 July 2024 The previous essay, “The Origins of ...
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July 21, 2024

Karma Comes to America

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I was a student at Cornell in 1965 or '66, when 10 or 12 members of the SDS decided to try to block a ROTC awards ceremony, to take plac...
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July 02, 2024

And So, We Come to the End

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Wafers- Let me begin by quoting my last message, on the previous thread: "Let's get real. The 2nd presidential debate is schedu...
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June 08, 2024

The Origins of Sadism

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Wafers- For a while now, I've been working on a new collection of essays. It's coming slowly, might take me 3 or 4 years. You have...
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May 10, 2024

Soul-Changers

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3TXTV9X?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520 Wafers: Here is the poetry book I've been talking about (also availabl...
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Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.
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