Crisis and Rebirth: America's Dangerous Decade Ahead

The Crisis is upon us. What happens next will determine America's fate for decades to come.

NOTE: I have spent a good bit of time talking and writing about the cycles that exist within linear history. Most ancient cultures assumed that history was cyclical, and thus that no progress was possible. The idea of linear time and historical progress is distinctly Christian, though it has been taken up since by others. This is the correct view, but it does not negate the existence of cycles, a facet of reality that the ancients saw without realizing it was merely part of a greater whole.

I have particularly focused attention on Neil Howe’s work (see my short review in “My 10 Favorite Books of 2024”), but that doesn’t mean other theoretical frameworks don’t exist or aren’t valid. George Friedman here posits two different cycles whose ends are about to converge, with each other and with Howe’s. The latter speaks of an ekpyrosis, the ancient Greek term for “Crisis” or general conflagration. Past Crises include the Great Depression-World War II era, the Civil War, and the American Revol…