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.

February 17, 2010

What if...?

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We are too impressed with the pattern revealed to us... to remember that for the participants history is a haphazard affair, apparently aiml...
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February 08, 2010

Is the American Dream Killing You?

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This is the title of a book by a former corporate executive in Washington, DC, Paul Stiles, published in 2005. He finally threw in the towel...
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February 01, 2010

Straight Talk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWU-JHetMM&feature=player_embedded
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January 25, 2010

Yes, The New Yorker

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Dear Friends, I've been subscribing to the New Yorker for years. Sometimes I wonder why. They actually supported the American invasion/...
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January 24, 2010

To See Ourselves as We Are Seen

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I recall, shortly after the attacks of 9/11, a radio program in the United States that asked for brief statements on the part of journalists...
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December 24, 2009

Fate

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Dear Friends: Merry Xmas to you all. Here's something to think about in the New Year. One film I keep returning to–I must have seen it a...
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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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