Tuesday, the president of the United States met with an extraordinary group of CEOs. Including some who had been warning of potential apocalypse and begging for government help. Alas, the president declined to step in and told these worried founders of a new industry to sort it out themselves. But why would the president go
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President Donald Trump told Al Jazeera on Wednesday, August 26th that we are on the brink of “achieving a very great victory” in Iran. But that does not appear to be true. In fact, we have entered a great stalemate. We’ve gone for 28 days without major attacks in the Iran War. We’ve lost
To understand why we are going crazy, you have to understand a basic principle. Parents love to trash the technologies their kid’s flash. In the 1990s, gory, blood and guts videogames were booming. And adults blamed those games for the violence and crime in society. In 1992 and 1993 there were Senate hearings about
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
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
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