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 11, 2014

Our Success Is Legendary

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Wafers! Far be it for a modest soul such as myself to brag, but I think, at this point (the 230th post), it might be time for a little ho...
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August 26, 2014

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Dear Waferinos- I guess it's time for a new thread. Unfortunately, I have no great insights to offer at this point; my mind is as emp...
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August 12, 2014

Is This What Senility Looks Like?

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Dear Wafers (and Waferettes!)- Recently drove out to the gym I belong to, on the outskirts of town. En route, I stopped at an Oxxo (conve...
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August 03, 2014

Love and Survival

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When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. -The Dalai Lama, Nobel acceptance speech, 1989 By late July, ...
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July 23, 2014

American Buffoons on Parade

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STELLA AWARDS For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself ...
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July 10, 2014

225: The Greatest Blog on Earth

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Dear Wafers (and Waferettes): Can anyone doubt it? There are millions of blogs out there, but only one worth reading: Us! The Waferblog i...
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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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