‘The Fourth Turning’: History in 80 Year Cycles

‘The Fourth Turning’, a book by Neil Howe and William Strauss first published in 1996, is attracting renewed interest as if it predicts “America’s next rendezvous with destiny.” In one week alone, more than a dozen videos about the book have been uploaded to YouTube. Check under “recently uploaded.”

The theory behind the book is that over the last 500 ye…