Dark American age is a grim look at the current situation of the United States, which has accelerated and dizzy has entered what Morris Berman calls the final phase of the American empire. Based on a meticulous historical analysis that shows how from its origins this nation lodged the individualist, imperialist and Manichean seeds, embodied in a binary thought and discourse that catalog the world in terms of "good" (Americans) and "bad" The author extends and deepens the ideas addressed in The Twilight of American Culture to show that the cultural, social, urban, political and economic massacre is the culmination of an American imperial project committed to exporting its vision and Its way of life to all corners of the planet. Berman argues that September 11 was a "gift from heaven" for a long-standing imperial project that found in "Terrorism" a perfect enemy to play the role once held by "Communism" as a ubiquitous threat before which combat must be contingent The other ends and values ​​of American society. He also draws an undisputed and direct line between the atrocities of US foreign policy in the Middle East, in particular what he calls the "Axis of Resentment", which originated from his actions in Iran, Iraq and Israel, and the relentless hatred Which has incubated in the Arab world, which leads to immolation as the only way to inflict damage equivalent to the "Great Satan." In analyzing the US government's response to the terrorist attacks, which included the restriction of civil liberties and individual guarantees, as well as the legalization of torture and other vexatious practices toward enemy prisoners, Berman concludes that it is possible that his country Is encountering a terrorist attack over the emergence of an open and unapologetic police state. In a country of ignorant and cynical citizens, for whom shopping malls are the new temples in which they practice their civil religion, and freedom is to be able to go shopping wherever it was desired, Berman not only rules out the possibility of a transformation, But considers that the same American stupidity, arrogance and arrogance will be the last nails of the coffin of this dark age of which the United States will no longer be unscathed.