When I mentioned Neil Howe’s 2023 book, The Fourth Turning is Here, sparking a conversation around the table over the holidays, and then brought my copy out so people could look at the figures, my UC-Irvine business prof brother-in-law expressed surprise. “I didn’t take you for that kind of guy,” he said. In a series of books, all but the last co-authored with the late William Strauss, Howe argues for a cyclical view of history. Any cyclical view of history, by the nature of the case, integrates human events with natural processes, introduces an element of determinism, of predictability, reduces Read more