The State Department has issued a level two advisory to American tourists in France, including these disturbing words: “Avoid demonstrations and areas of unrest.” What is the State Department talking about? Protests began in France five weeks ago, Thursday September 17, in Créteil, a suburb over seven miles southeast of Paris, with student demonstrations
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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 smart phones are
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
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, Wafiqu Ṣafā, says that
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
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 years ago, the
The newest book from the man Britain’s Channel4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century is about to be published, not in the USA where Bloom lives, but in France. An Interview With (The) Lucifer (Principle) will be published in Paris early in 2026 by Jardin de Livres in Paris. Why France? The
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
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
Howard Bloom guests on Secrets of the Stage with host Quinn Lemley. This week on Secrets of the Stage, Quinn Lemley sits down with the legendary Howard Bloom — former music publicist to icons like Michael Jackson, Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx — to talk about his groundbreaking new book and the philosophy behind his
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 me me, the
Education Week reports that we are in a student mental health crisis. So does the surgeon general. Will taking cellphones away from kids while they’re in school help us get out of this crisis? I asked the science search engine Consensus to do a survey of studies on school cellphone bans and mental health. Consensus reviewed ten scientific
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
The Internet has been under constant attack for the last 20 years as the source of all of our emotional woes, from depression, cyberbullying, and suicide to negative body image. The anti-Internet attack has been so fierce that nine states have tried to ban social media access for kids under sixteen or to require the
A story broke in Newsweek magazine April 10th claiming that a study in a high prestige medical journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Psychiatry, revealed that teenagers who spend a lot of time playing video games and who use their computers heavily are more likely to have a psychotic episode. In the study Newsweek was reporting on, seven researchers in
The TikTok issue is one of the biggest damned if you do, damned if you don’t problems on America’s agenda. On April 14, 2023, nearly a year ago, Montana became the first state to try to ban TikTok, but a US District Judge put a temporary halt to the ban, saying it “oversteps state power,”
Norman Lear died Tuesday, December 5th, at the age of 101 at his home in LA.  The headlines mourn his passing.  What they miss is his victory. Norman Lear lived to be 101 years old.  That’s a startling achievement. Why was Lear able to live so long?  In part, because he cherished the joys in life.  He said, “Life is made
Why are people acting so crazy these days? Because crazy behavior is becoming the new normal.  In other words, what was clearly insane ten years ago is normal today. Why? One of the most potent causes is what researchers call “toxic leadership.” We have an example of toxic leadership in the firing of the Speaker of
Lyrics by Howard Bloom, Music and Vocals By Airship Caravan Airship Caravan on the Web: https://www.airshipcaravan.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/5MrZc7pfBkFNYx2GJTDo2u?si=nkyaQm6SRbOUu4Z2aRJPNA The Howard Bloom Institute: https://www.howardbloom.institute
“MJ the Musical†is described as “The new Broadway musical that takes audiences inside the creative process of one of the greatest entertainers in history. Featuring over 25 of Michael Jackson’s biggest hits, MJ allows us to re-discover the man in the mirror, with an explosion of music, choreography and theatricality as unforgettable as the
“Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: A Search For Soul in the Power Pits of Rock And Roll” is a powerful and brilliant ode to a behind the scenes look at the music industry and what goes into the making of a superstar, an idol, a legend. Author Howard Bloom having been one of the greatest