Cultural and Intellectual Historian

Michael Saler

1 article 2018

Michael Saler is a historian and professor at the University of California, Davis, specializing in modern European cultural and intellectual history. He is known for his scholarship on modernity, enchantment, and the history of the imagination. He contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard in 2018.

A ‘Mirror’ to Our Souls

April 20, 2018 · Books & Arts, Black Mirror, Netflix

The darkest show on TV—Netflix’s tech-dystopian ‘Black Mirror’—is itself a sign of hope for a human future.