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.

October 26, 2015

Latest "Neurotic Beauty" Review

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Hi there, Wafers- We're on the edge of (re)publication, I'm happy to say. Water Street Press will soon be making Neurotic Beauty ...
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October 24, 2015

Education for Buffoons

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Chris Lehmann has a pretty trenchant essay on American higher education in his book Rich People Things that shows how far we've fallen ...
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October 17, 2015

Open Letter to President Putin

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Dear Mr. President: Gaspadin: I am writing in response to your remark--accurate in the extreme, in my opinion--that members of the Ame...
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October 05, 2015

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Well, Waferinos- Time to move on to greener pastures besides massacres, although there is apparently one a day now. Eventually, the medi...
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September 22, 2015

The Clark University Lecture

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Dear Wafers- About three years ago at this time I gave a lecture at Clark University in Mass. entitled "The Waning of the Modern Age...
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September 13, 2015

A Wrinkle in Time

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[Note to the reader: A Wrinkle in Time is the name of a novel published by Madeleine L’Engle in 1963. The following essay was just published...
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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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