American Dark Age is a dark look at the current situation in the United States, which accelerated and vertiginously has entered what Morris Berman called the final phase of the American empire. Based on a thorough historical analysis that shows how this nation from its origins housed the individualistic, imperialist and Manichean seeds, embodied in binary thinking and speech cataloging the world in terms of "good" (the Americans) and "bad" (the they are different), the author extends and deepens the ideas addressed in the twilight of American culture to show that the cultural, social, urban, political and economic slaughter is the culmination of an American imperial project bent on exporting its vision and their way of life all over the world. Berman argues that September 11 was a "godsend" for old imperial project that found in "terrorism" perfect enemy to play the role they once had the "Communism" as ubiquitous threat to which should be subordinate combat the other aims and values ​​of American society. It also draws a direct line between undisputed and the atrocities of the US foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly in what he calls the "Axis of resentment" caused by their actions in Iran, Iraq and Israel and the implacable hatred that has been incubated in the Arab world, which leads to the immolation as the only way to inflict damage equivalent to the "Great Satan." When analyzing the response of the US government to the terrorist attacks, which included the restriction of civil liberties and individual rights and the legalization of torture and other degrading practices towards enemy prisoners, Berman concludes that it is possible that your country you are a terrorist attack over the appearance of an open police state and openly. In a country of ignorant citizens and cynical, for those malls are the new temples in which they practice their civil religion, and freedom is to be able to shop where I was wanted, Berman not only rule out the possibility of a transformation, but it considers that the same stupidity, arrogance and American arrogance will be the last nail in the coffin of this dark age in the United States no longer escape unscathed.