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.

July 01, 2014

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Dear Wafers: Time to start a new post, I guess. We need to leave discussions of a future Mittney presidency, the pros and cons of marriag...
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June 19, 2014

Our Exciting Future: 2016

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Dear Wafers: It's kind of fun, watching the American media getting all worked up about the 2016 presidential election, 2+ years in ad...
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June 05, 2014

The Empty American

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Dear Wafers (and Waferettes): In 1955, we had The Quiet American (Greene). Then in 1958, The Ugly American (Lederer). I think it may be t...
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May 19, 2014

Thoughts on a Rainy Day

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Who are we, really? Does anyone really know him- or herself? Buddhists say that personality is a ghost, that the self is an illusion, but it...
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May 05, 2014

Our Man in Hanoi

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Wafers- Just arrived in Hanoi, managed to arrange a date with Jane Fonda for later this week at the Jane Fonda Institute. Am very excited...
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April 14, 2014

219: Konnichiwafers

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Dear Wafers (and Waferettes): Things to do in Tokyo: 1. Interview otaku (nerds). They really are adorable. I may even move here and be...
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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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