Ever since he published The Twilight of American Culture in 2000, Morris Berman clearly pointed out what seemed to him to be an irreversible trajectory of decline—in every sense—of what is known as the American empire. Throughout the time that has elapsed since then, pointing out this decline has become almost commonplace, stridently symbolized by the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency, with all that this has implied in terms of the degradation of the discourse and sociopolitical climate, not only in the United States, but with consequences for the entire Western world.
Are we there yet? collects the essays written by Berman during the last decade, where, on the one hand, he delves into the process of the collapse of US hegemony, and how factors such as the growth of the debt and the loss of civil liberties and mass surveillance of its own citizens are a irrefutable proo...read more
