Review of “The Fourth Turning Is Here” by Neil Howe | City Journal
The Fourth Turning Is Here, by Neil Howe (Simon & Schuster, 592 pp., $32.50)
The old American republic is collapsing. And a new American republic, as yet unrecognizable, is under construction. The opening line of historian Neil Howe s The Fourth Turning Is Here (2023) jumps to the point. It also foreshadows the odd dualistic theme that seems to run not only through the book s pages but through the very air of our national moment: intuitions of imminent doom and destruction, intimations of hope and renewal; one world dying, another struggling to be born. We sense that serious change, of one kind or another, is coming and soon. Howe s book tries to tell us why that is, and why we should find cause for optimism.
“Optimism” in a sort of limited sense though.