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
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In a world that often rewards conformity, Howard Bloom has built a life — and a legacy — on defying it. To call Bloom a publicist would be accurate, but insufficient. To call him an author would be true, but incomplete. To call him a thinker barely scratches the surface. Howard Bloom is an anomaly — a
If you’re looking for someone who doesn’t just talk about big ideas but actually forces you to rethink how the world works, Howard Bloom is in a category of his own. Bloom has spent decades dismantling conventional wisdom—about evolution, culture, power, creativity, and the hidden systems that quietly shape human behavior. He’s not interested in trends or
Howard Bloom has built a career doing what most thinkers avoid—crossing lines. Not political ones. Intellectual ones. Science into culture. Biology into history. Rock music into evolutionary theory. While most writers specialize, Bloom synthesizes, pulling patterns from places that aren’t supposed to touch and insisting they belong in the same conversation. Before he became an
Early Wednesday morning, December 3rd, the AARP, the nation’s leading organization for those over the age of 55, released a report with a radically unexpected revelation. You would think that the loneliest Americans among us would be teenagers who are leaving their families, going off to college, and being forced to build an entirely new
Why should we give thanks on Thanksgiving? We live in a system much bigger than we are. Our foods come to us courtesy of a sun 95 million miles away, and courtesy of life’s 3.5 billion year evolution. What’s more, our foods don’t just come from California, Florida, Brazil and Africa. Our turkey comes to
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
The big question in astrophysics right now is whether our solar system has been penetrated by a giant spaceship. A spaceship from a distant solar system. And from a distant civilization. A spaceship that deliberately cruised past three separate planets, then hid behind the sun. Why swing behind the sun? Says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, to release
Frankly, I was horrified by the coverage of Israel’s retaliatory strikes on October 29th. Horrified by the headlines claiming, “strikes kill more than 100 in Gaza.” And horrified by the mainstream media’s coverage of this entire Gaza war. The mainstream media has been hijacked by Hamas. Hijacked by Muslim movements that want to see Israel exterminated
This week on Secrets of the Stage, Quinn Lemley explores the future of creativity with special guest Howard Bloom — author, thinker, and music industry legend. Together they tackle one of today’s biggest questions: Will AI replace writers, artists, and creators, or simply give us new tools to amplify our genius? From the typewriter to ChatGPT, Bloom explains why
In September, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, sat down for nearly an hour in a private session with Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly, Zelensky asked for American Tomahawk missiles. Then, two days ago, on October 6th, Trump told reporters that before making a decision he wanted to clarify exactly how the
In just two days, September 22nd and 23rd, President Donald Trump’s perception of the Russian war against Ukraine changed dramatically. After speaking at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, President Trump met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and left with a whole new view of the Ukraine war. Remember February 28th, 2025, just seven months ago,
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
At 6:01 pm on the evening of May 20th, CNN published a story reporting that, “The US has obtained intelligence suggesting that Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.” The story, says CNN, came from “multiple us officials familiar with the latest intelligence.” And what was their data source? “Private messaging from senior Israeli officials,
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.
On April 22nd, in a scenic valley in the Western Himalayan mountains known for its breathtaking beauty, five armed men in military uniforms emerged from the pine forest, rounded up a group of tourists, forced the men to sit or kneel, asked each man his religion, and if the answer wasn’t Islam, killed him at
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
On Monday, March 24, the Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, announced that it was his last day in office. In other words, he resigned without notice. DeJoy had been in office for five years, since Donald Trump appointed him in 2020. And he had been a subject of