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 28, 2009

Not To Be Missed

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Dear Friends, Check out a Harrison Ford film entitled "Crossing Over". It's a pretty good portrait of what we have finally be...
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September 18, 2009

Oh fer...So now he's a poet?

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Dear Friends, As many of you know, I relocated to Mexico a little over three years ago. There were many reasons for this, both personal and...
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September 10, 2009

The Parable of the Frogs

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One who knows “enough is enough” always has enough. – Tao Te Ching What does it take to produce large-scale social change? Most historians, ...
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June 30, 2009

Not Coming To Your Local Cineplex

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Dear Friends: This 2006 film is a bit dated (they actually believe the Democratic Party is going to turn things around), but worth a view ne...
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June 22, 2009

Tribal Consciousness and the Enlightenment Tradition

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At one point in his work, Proust advances a theory of development that goes back to Goethe, and ultimately to Plato. It was Goethe who coine...
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April 29, 2009

How Chic Was My Progress

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When it was hip to be hep, I was hep. –From “I’m Hip,” by Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough At one point in The Labyrinth of Solitude , Octavi...
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Morris Berman
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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