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Neil Howe and William Strauss published the book, The Fourth Turning, in 1997 Fans of the book say it has proved remarkably accurate at predicting events The authors say there is an upheaval every 20 years with generational change Every 80 years there is a fourth turning, with dramatic, radical change They argue Civil War, American Revolution and First World War were turnings Believers argue COVID and BLM social unrest are part of this turning  Order will be restored by a Gray Champion - part ...

On my radar: Nick Lairds cultural highlights Nick Laird © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Born in 1975 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, poet and novelist Nick Laird attended the University of Cambridge before working in law for six years. In 2005, he published his first collection of poems, Utterly Monkey. Since then, he has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and the Eric...

Covid Closed Theaters. But It Also Made Them Accessible. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/magazine/drama-streaming.html Covid Closed Theaters. But It Also Made Them Accessible. Before 2020, theater often felt inaccessible to me, a luxury for those who were more able-bodied or lived in certain cities. Now I’m obsessed. Credit...Illustration by Ariel Davis April 6, 2021Updated 9:50 a.m. ET I have never lived in either London or New York, and thus have next to no experience with the hotbeds of...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC "Are these the Nazis, Walter? No, Donny, these men are nihilists, theres nothing to be afraid of." -The Big Lebowski Since the so-called insurrection of January 6, big media, big government, and big corporations have been demanding the collective scalp of the Trumpian alt-right. If we dont somehow make those 70 million Trump voters disappear, the subtext goes, American democracy is doomed. The alt-right agrees that American democracy faces an existential threat, but d...

Illustration by Andrew Zbihlyj In February’s Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the modern GOP had one last shot at rescuing its long-battered image as a responsible governing party. It might have reclaimed something of its former standing as an honest broker in the American two-party system, committed (among other things) to the peaceful transition of power, the conduct of free and fair elections, and e...

February 23, 2021 | Was Trump The Mule? Jim Quinn James Quinn has held financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and university in his 30 year career. Those positions included treasurer, controller, and head of strategic planning. He earned a BS in accounting from Drexel University and an MBA from Villanova University. He is a certified public accountant and a certified cash manager. “Excellence, he is known as the Mule. He is spoken of little, in a factual sense, but I have gathered ...

“Americans today fear that linearism (alias the American Dream) has run its course. Many would welcome some enlightenment about history’s patterns and rhythms, but today’s intellectual elites offer little that’s useful. Caught between the entropy of the chaoticists and the hubris of the linearists, the American people have lost their moorings.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning “The ancients believed that each cyclical extreme, mirroring the hopes and fears of t...

An American Mark Twain moment James R. Bailey, opinion contributor © Getty Images An American Mark Twain moment Samuel Clemons claimed the nom de plume Mark Twain after the riverboat navigators cry to signal the shift from dangerous waters into safe ones - as well as the reverse, from safe waters to dangerous ones. "Mark" was the starting point; "twain" was where the two forces met. Clemons chose the name because it reflected his authorial code. After all, he gave us "Huckleb...

January 25, 2021 | Fourth Turning Detonation Jim Quinn James Quinn has held financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and university in his 30 year career. Those positions included treasurer, controller, and head of strategic planning. He earned a BS in accounting from Drexel University and an MBA from Villanova University. He is a certified public accountant and a certified cash manager. “Americans today fear that linearism (alias the American Dream) has run its course. Many would we...

(Photo of Will Arbery, upper left, and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” upper right, courtesy Playwrights Horizon. Bottom photo: Catholic News Service) “There’s a war coming, dude,” says one character to another very early in “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” an Off-Broadway play by Will Arbery that created a sensation in 2019 for its nuanced portrait of young conservatives associated with a Catholic college in Wyoming. These were articulate, complicated people with political and rel...