Right-wing spirituality is more powerful than you might believe

Steve Bannon's fascination with perennial philosophy influences his nationalism.

The yugas are a cyclical reading of time in Hinduism. According to this belief, the world cycles through four phases, the worst of which is Kali Yuga—kali meaning “strife” or “discord.”

While this term has been in the American yoga vocabulary for decades, denoting the idea that we’re in a bad phase but soon the Krita Yuga will cleanse everything, the mo…