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May 13, 2006. The Leon Charney Report. Morris Berman Featured on The Leon Charney Report. Posted by Morris Berman at 5:48 PM. Links to this post. Dark Days for America? The Leonard Lopate Show. Tuesday, April 18, 2006. Airs weekdays at 12PM on 93.9 FM and AM 820 and Tuesdays through Saturdays at 3AM on AM 820. Listen to the whole show. Posted by Morris Berman at 5:25 PM. Links to this post. May 07, 2006. Interview with Michael Krasny. Wed, Apr 26, 2006. Cultural Historian Morris Berman. Links to this post.
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April 28, 2006. THE END OF EMPIRE. Historian Morris Berman outlines the fall of the American Empire in Dark Ages America. Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire. On Monday, Berman will appear at the Boulder Book Store. Prior to that he hooked up with Boulder Weekly to discuss the fall of the American Empire, why we can thank Jimmy Carter for 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, and what kind of beer he'd like to drink with everyone's favorite ex-president. BW: Which would you prefer? BW: If what you're s...
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May 29, 2006. Beacon blinking out: Dark view of America. The Final Phase of Empire. WW Norton and Company. 416 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Gresham Riley. From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 28 May 2006. To readers who already believe or suspect that the United States is in deep trouble at home and abroad, Morris Berman’s new book will come as no surprise. Berman believes that four characteristics of the West after the fall of Rome have reemerged in American society, and he uses these features to build his case f...
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April 15, 2006. Waiting for the Barbarians. A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America. Saturday October 6, 2001. When I wrote my recent book, The Twilight of American Culture, my focus was on what might be called "inner" barbarism, the structural factors endemic to American society that were, I believed, bringing about its disintegration. Instead, the enemy is characterised as "jealous of our way of life", "hate...
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May 26, 2006. Interview with Boston Globe. A civilization running on empty. By Anna Mundow May 21, 2006. Q: How did we get here? Q: Wasn't this imperial role forced on the US? Q: Isn't the war on terror protecting the American way of life? How could they do this when we're so good? George Bush said. Well, examine the possibility, as Jimmy Carter suggested, that we're not all that good. Q: Is the US prepared for the next attack? Q: What are our choices? I mean, does everybody really need all this stuff?
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June 29, 2006. Letter to the New York Times. Dear Friends and Colleagues:. Some of you undoubtedly saw Michiko Kakutani’s virulent review of. In the June 16, 2006, issue of the. Purposes well: by savaging a left-wing study (and just to set the record straight, DAA has many things in it that conservatives would agree with), the. Can protect its flanks not only from the likes of Coulter and O’Reilly, but also from the Bush administration as well: "See? We attack the left; we’re not liberals at all! My dist...
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April 06, 2006. Selected quotes from Morris Berman and. DARK AGES AMERICA: The Final Phase of Empire. On the American people:. All in all, the great mass of our countrymen talk, act, and ‘reason’ as though their crania contained chopped liver rather than gray matter. (p. 295). We retain the rhetoric of liberal democracy, but in concrete terms this supposed democracy gets enacted as the commodity culture, in which freedom of choice really means Wendy’s versus Burger King. (p. 73). On George W. Bush:.