By Howard Bloom We are in times that you’d think would drive us crazy. We are in the middle of two wars without end, Russia’s war in Ukraine and a war that most folks do not want in Iran. Oil prices are almost 69% higher than their low nine months ago. We’re being told that
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Our president won’t tell you this, but the United States is being played by the Iranians in the US-Iran war. We are being hoodwinked. We are being suckered. We are being made the fool. One of President Trump’s favorite negotiating tactics is to exclude the people on behalf of whom he is negotiating and to
By Howard Bloom It’s time to be careful, very, very careful. And it’s time not to let our domestic politics blind us. As the Iranians and their allies, the Chinese, see it, a new balance of power is taking over the world. And the United States is no longer the dominant superpower. Far from it. In fact, a Hezbollah official,
Rob McConnell, President and CEO of Canada’s Relmar Media Company and host of Canada’s syndicated radio and TV show The ‘X’ Zone, has written an unexpected song in honor of a frequent guest, author, scientific thinker, and radio personality: Howard Bloom. Bloom, the author of nine books, has been called The Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and
By Howard Bloom This cosmos is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Among other things, it is replete with immaterial forces that have power over material things. Yes, immaterial forces. Forces you and I can’t see. What in the world do I mean? At the very birth of the universe in a Big Bang 13.7 billion
Renowned author, cultural theorist, and futurist Howard Bloom continues his long-standing engagement with academic and intellectual communities through the work of The Howard Bloom Institute, an interdisciplinary institute focused on the scientific and cultural forces shaping human behavior, collective intelligence, and societal evolution. Howard Bloom’s work occupies a rare intersection of evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, sociology, and
Some thinkers explain the world. Others expose the wiring behind it. Howard Bloom belongs firmly in the second camp. For decades, Bloom has been obsessed with one central question: why do humans behave the way they do—collectively, not individually? His work cuts across science, culture, politics, creativity, and history, not to decorate conversations, but to dismantle illusions. Heroes don’t
Cory Booker, during his 25-hour record-breaking Senate speech Monday night March 31st to Tuesday night April 1st described the current state of America as a “crisis” and emphasized that “these are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.” Booker’s statement was dismissed as pathetic whining by MAGA cheerleader Sean Hannity. But it leads Democrats
By Howard Bloom I’ve now seen death from two very different points of view. In 1988, I was hit by an illness without a name, an illness that would imprison me in my bedroom for the next fifteen years. Today it’s called myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome. I lost nearly everything that had made
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is the highly anticipated book of paradigm-challenges from Howard Bloom, the man Britain’s Channel 4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Freud of the 21st century. And the Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong just may turn your existing view of yourself
By Howard Bloom Wednesday morning, July 31st, at 2 am Iranian time, Israel appears to have assassinated one of Hamas’ top three leaders, Ismail Haniyeh. Apparently Israel nailed Haniyeh with an explosive that blew up a few rooms of the luxury government apartment building in which the leader of Hamas was staying. Why was Haniyeh
Joe Biden’s Oval Office Speech By Howard Bloom Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech Wednesday, July 24th, was more powerful than those who hate him may realize. It was powerful for a simple reason: it focused on the importance of four forgotten American virtues: truth, character, decency and democracy. It was a speech about what Joe Biden
There is a sudden movement in the Western World to take smartphones away from kids. It started in the summer of 2022 when social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at New York University, the father of two adolescents, was writing a book about what he called “the pervasive negative effects of the internet and social media on
By Howard Bloom On Wednesday, April 24th, the Senate passed a TikTok bill. And Joe Biden signed it into law. The new law says that ByteDance, the company that founded and owns TikTok, must sell TikTok to an American purchaser within nine months or TikTok will be banished from the Apple and Google app stores
by Howard Bloom What started as a marketing gimmick may have revealed something important about your happiness. True Lemon is a product created in Baltimore in 2003 to put the flavor of a lemon slice into a powder that you can pour into your drink. True Lemon is what its creator, David Schleider, calls a