This Month @ The TNM: January 2026
Host Will Kacy on the Fourth Turning, the generational cycle theory, and what it says about the moment Texas independence is in.
Host Will Kacy opens the new year with a framework for making sense of turbulent times: the Fourth Turning, from authors William Strauss and Neil Howe.
History moves in roughly eighty-to-hundred-year cycles, they argue, four turnings like four seasons. It is not a crystal ball, Kacy says, but a lens. He walks the cycle from the postwar high through the awakening and the unraveling to the present crisis, and makes the case that these are exactly the conditions in which an old order gives way and something like Texas independence becomes possible.
The January 2026 episode is free to watch on TEXIAN, on desktop or in the app. A free TEXIAN account opens it.
See more of the Partisan in Google’s Top Stories.Add as a Preferred Source on Google
