The Fourth Turning (Strauss and Howe)
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The Fourth Turning (Strauss and Howe)
| Full title | The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy |
|---|---|
| Author | William Strauss & Neil Howe |
| Published | 1996 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Strauss and Howe’s theory that Anglo-American history moves in 80-to-100-year cycles of four generational “turnings” — High, Awakening, Unravelling and Crisis — with the 1996 book forecasting a crisis arriving in the mid-2020s. Widely criticised as unfalsifiable and widely adopted anyway, it is the load-bearing source behind a great deal of “we are living through a crisis era” argument. |
The Fourth Turning (Strauss and Howe)
Where I heard about it
- @FilArons — on his recommended-reading list (November 2025).
Connections
- Historical Futurism — the portfolio idea this sits inside: reading the past as a way of forecasting.
- History · Forecasting — the two things the book tries to weld together, and the reason it is contested.
- The Fourth Turning — the concept page tracking where the framework gets invoked across the corpus.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.