On September 17, at the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Créteil, just southeast of Paris, teachers went on strike over missing administrative and health staff, missing aides for disabled pupils, unreplaced teachers, water leaks, a broken window left unrepaired, toilets frequently out of service, and classrooms that were stifling in summer. The next day, students used Snapchat
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Workers for the big four artificial intelligence companies are warning us that within four years, artificial intelligences could kill off every human on the planet. And that our window of opportunity to stop this apocalypse is short. Says, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher at Anthropic, one of the AI big four, ‘the next year
The world is changing fast. So fast that it makes us see through a lens of insanity. How does rapid change drive us nuts? In 1905, a six-year-old boy in Norway had a revelatory experience. Summers were hot in Oslo, his hometown. To keep her son happy, his mom rented a farmhouse fifteen miles outside
We are accustomed to being the leader of the global order, the big kahuna on planet earth. But our preeminence is slipping. And your media, whether it’s Fox News or CNN, is not telling you about it. Tuesday night, a two-day summit wrapped up that will slowly but surely have an impact on your life
The Iran War may be backfiring on us. It may be losing us our towering position with the oil-producing countries of the Middle East. On February 28th when the United States and Israel mounted a surprise strike on a meeting of Iran’s top leaders in the hope that the Iranian people would rise up and
Donald Trump has now told us for the 38th time that we are on the brink of a peace deal with Iran, a Memorandum of Understanding in which we both agree to turn the Strait of Hormuz back into a free passage zone, in which we agree to stage a next level of negotiation on Iran’s
Two surprising things happened in the Iran War on Wednesday, June 3rd. Congress passed a War Powers Resolution. And our president announced about Iran’s supreme leader that “we seem to be getting along quite well” and that he would like to sit down with him in person. Meanwhile, our president has proclaimed that when it comes to
Some thinkers build careers inside one discipline. Howard Bloom has spent his life ignoring those boundaries entirely. Author, scientific thinker, and former music-industry strategist, Bloom is known for connecting fields most people would never think to link—cosmology and pop culture, biology and human behavior, the evolution of the universe and the future of society. His work asks
Once upon a time the idea of a genie in Aladdin’s lamp was a fantasy. That genie was conjured in prose sometime before 1704 in the Arabian Nights. But it couldn’t be conjured in reality. Now with the advent of AI, that fantasy is about to come true. Yes, within less than a decade we may well have
Howard Bloom has never been interested in safe ideas. His work lives in the uncomfortable space where science, culture, psychology, and history collide—and where most thinkers politely stop asking questions. Bloom keeps going. For decades, he’s built a reputation as a radical systems thinker, futurist, and cultural critic who doesn’t just interpret the world, but interrogates
This week a surprising song with a surprising origin soared to number one on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. It was “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust. “Walk My Walk” was a distinctive song with a powerful sound and quintessentially country lyrics. And Breaking Rust’s EP, Resilient, had five songs of persistence and pride, remaining true
In an age of noise, division, and fleeting headlines, few voices cut through with the clarity, intelligence, and urgency of Howard Bloom. Once hailed as “the best press agent in the history of rock and roll,” Bloom is not only a cultural icon but also a thinker whose insights into humanity, science, and society make
For the first time in history, an author will sit down with a digital doppelganger of himself–an AI clone built to replace him when he dies–to discuss his new book in front of a live audience. This conversation between an author and an irreverent bot trained to take his place when he leaves this mortal
Wednesday, July 23rd, at 5 pm in a keynote address to the White House “Winning the Race” AI Summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump issued his AI Action Plan. His Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. That plan called for unleashing innovation by removing the barriers of federal regulation. It called for
According to Pew Research, politics is one of the biggest causes of our discontent. Politics, says Pew, angers and exhausts us. And this week has been rich in political events that may have angered and exhausted you. Polls show we are concerned about the economy, concerned about the sky-high costs of medical treatment, concerned about inflation,
Here’s the question. Has Vladimir Putin been playing Donald Trump, stringing him along, and making a fool out of him. You be the judge. On June 14th, President Trump had a phone call with Russia’s President Putin. When it was over, Trump was optimistic about achieving peace. To show Russia’s willingness to negotiate, President Trump
Why can’t there be world peace? Because every great nation wants to be on top. That means China, Russia, and the USA are battling to be the number one nation on earth. Why? Because biology has built something strange into us: the pecking order, the social totem pole, the ladder of status, what scientists call the “dominance hierarchy.” And
On Friday June 13, White House envoy Steve Witkoff was meeting with Iran’s foreign minister in Rome in the hope of persuading the Iranians to abandon their program to build a nuclear bomb. The Iranians had made it clear over and over again that they would never end uranium enrichment, the key to nuclear bomb
Today’s world is driving some of us insane. Especially us liberal Democrats. Why? The realities we take for granted are heaving beneath our feet. For example, Democrats believe that standard ethical and moral norms have been swallowed by a sinkhole. On May 14th, our president openly used his Saudi trip to make business deals for his family.
Wednesday, April 29th, in New York State’s capital, Albany, Governor Kathy Hochul and the leaders of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate announced an agreement on a whopping $254 billion state budget—a budget that still requires approval by the New York State Legislature. Buried in that quarter-trillion-dollar deal was something
The mood of us Americans right now is flat out bonkers. One measure of the mood of the nation is the stock market, which lost almost thirteen trillion dollars in value from the day of our president’s inauguration to April 2nd, when our president took to the Rose Garden and announced sky-high tariffs on 180
Bloom to unveil his new book The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong at Transformed How to Create The Future When The World is Upside Down, May 3-4, 2025” He’s a man of science who did his fieldwork in mass behavior as a career architect for hundreds of performing
Why are Americans uneasy? A year ago, in the spring of 2024, The Chapman University Survey of American Fears, indicated that over 50% of Americans were worried about a third world war, corrupt government officials, and terrorism. Since then, things have gotten worse. Why? Because the earth seems to be shaking under our feet. And things
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
How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to. That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News. In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration. Republicans’ expectations are sunny. Democrats’ expectations are grim. As a
In the middle of November, roughly four weeks ago, the first of a deluge of reports appeared complaining of large numbers of drones the size of SUVs hovering at night with their lights on over New Jersey. Later more of these reports came in from New York State and Connecticut. And the number of these drone reports
This is the most abnormal election of your lifetime and mine. At this moment, a mere eleven days before we go to the polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck. A Wall Street Journal poll issued Wednesday night, October 23, says Trump is leading by two percent. In England, The Economist’s Election
Why are people so upset these days? The answer is simple. Politics. The political climate in this country is more extreme than at any time since the days of demagogue Huey Long in 1936 and of segregationist George Wallace in 1968. The Democratic side believes that if Donald Trump wins, it will mean the end of democracy
Iran has mounted the biggest ballistic missile attack in history. It claims it launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel Tuesday night, October 1st. 181 appeared in the night skies over Israel. They were shot out of the heavens by Israel’s Arrow3 missiles, a part of Israel’s remarkable air defense system, the Iron Dome. There was only
Joe Biden’s nightmare of a wider war in the Middle East is coming to pass. But the war is not widening because of Israel. It is widening because of Iran. On October 7th, 2024, Hamas broke a cease-fire deal and started the Gaza war with the rape, torture, and slaughter of 1,200 Israeli civilians. On October