After Mr. Cannavale’s character remarks that people are fleeing New York City, the man replies: “It’s the fourth turning.”The puzzlement on Mr. Cannavale’s face invites an explanation.
According to “fourth turning” proponents, American history goes through recurring cycles.
Each one, which lasts about 80 to 100 years, consists of four generation-long seasons, or “turnings.” The winter season is a time of upheaval and reconstruction — a fourth turning.
The theory first appeared in “The Fourth Turning,” a work of pop political science that has had a cult following more or less since it was published in 1997.
In the last few years of political turmoil, the book and its ideas have bubbled into the mainstream.
Persons:
Bobby Cannavale, “, Cannavale’s
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Locations:
New Jersey, New York City