Articles

Here you can find the bulk of all the articles and columns I have written since the early 2000’s. A large part is in the leading Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. Earlier texts are mostly only in print.

Framstegsbloggen (the Progress Blog)

[In Swedish]
Blog in Dagens Nyheter 2011–2017 highlighting progress and misconceptions about progress. Awarded by Swedish Science Academy IVA in 2015.

Read here: Part one (December 2013–March 2017), Part two (August 2011–November 2013)

Medium

Essays, articles, and scripts on various topics from politics and psychology to the more esoteric realm.

Dagens Nyheter

[In Swedish]
Thousands of articles covering politics, economics, science, culture and general news from my over twenty years at the leading Swedish newspaper.

Follow-up blog on books

[In Swedish]
Further discussions on my books ”Apokalypsens gosiga mörker” (“The Cozy Darkness of the Apocalypse”) and ”Farväl, oskuld” (“Farewell, Innocence”).

Other media outlets

A selection of articles elsewhere

My columns and articles at Warp News

[In English]

Overarching theme: The world is better than we are led to believe.

Covering Consciousness

[January 2023, In English]

Overview of research on consciousness, written for Frontier Journalists’ Network

Migrationsmyten

[Fokus, 01-11-2024, In Swedish]

Politicians say war and poverty drive migration. Not so. The main driver is labor demand.

”Varför är det så varmt?”

[Fokus, 11-28-2023, In Swedish]

Analyzing a spike in temperature in 2023 that confuses experts on all sides.

”Lever vi i en postapokalyptisk civilisation?”

[Fokus, 07-18-2023, In Swedish]

Long read covering evidence that civilization began long before we are led to believe.

”Covidpolitiken – censur som aldrig fick ifrågasättas”

[Fokus 06-07-2023, In Swedish]

Long read covering lawsuit against Washington on breach of First amendment.

”Därför tonas goda nyheter om klimatet ned”

[Fokus, 04-24-2023, in Swedish]

Analyzing article dissecting driving forces behind the IPCC.

”Succéfilmen ’Don’t Look Up’ har fått allt om bakfoten”

[Fokus, 01-25-2022, in Swedish]

Column criticizing director Adam McKay for getting things backwards.

”Trots rubrikerna – klimatläget ganska hoppfullt”

[Fokus, 11-05-2021, in Swedish]
Analyzing article ahead of COP-26 summit comparing facts with official narrative.

”Nu talar siffrorna för att Afrikas tid är här”

[Svenska Dagbladet, 09-16-2018, in Swedish]
Erik Esbjörnsson and I write about Africa’s window of opportunity.

”State of the World in Two Minutes”

[On Dagens Nyheter’s Youtube channel, 06-08-2016]
Video explainer summing up major global trends.

”Utopierna som försvann i mediebruset”

[Uttryck Magazine, 04-08-2015, in Swedish]
An essay on the utopia-dystopia theme.

Are you ignorant about the world?

[CNN, 03-07-2015]
During a trip in the US with Dr Hans Rosling, Gapminder foundation, I wrote this piece for CNN.

”Ekonomiska krisen inte så farlig för Sverige”

[Dagens Nyheter, 08-09-2009, in Swedish]
Op-ed. Thesis: The 2008 economic crisis will show to be a small dip on the long-term growth curve.

Anders Bolling has shown us what journalism also could be: an honest effort to give a comprehensive picture of the world… Bolling has systematically and independently countered the mainstream news dramaturgy by complementing its daily alarms with facts about what is steadily improving.

Judges’ comments on the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ award for science minded journalism

Bolling is in a classical sense well-read, which endows him with a capacity to cover a wide range of topics. His ability to look for the relevant deviant voice or angle is particularly salient, which forces the reader or listener to see events from a different perspective than the prevailing one. This is certainly a laudable trait in today’s fast-spinning media landscape.

Karl Dalén, News Director, Dagens Nyheter

Anders Bolling is a skilled writer with a deep understanding of complex development issues, but even more notable is his ability to look beyond the immediate and tell stories of possibilities and highlighting human perspectives. As a moderator he is responsive and engaged.

Carolina Given-Sjölander, UNDP Communications Advisor for the Nordics

The Billion Boom:

This book will become a modern standard reference. I love the hopeful and realistic scenarios. The chapters on migration and its causes are indispensable.

Martin Schibbye, founder and publisher, Blank Spot Project

It is exciting and elegant to see the whole picture through the prism of demography. This book ought to inspire and to provoke debate.

Jan Eliasson, former deputy Secretary General of the United Nations

The Cozy Darkness of the Apocalypse:

Bolling offers a counter image to the common pessimism of the media. It is an approachable and efficient text which shimmers of contagious hope and enthusiasm.

Sundsvalls Tidning

This book is an honorable attempt of fouling one’s own nest. Its strength lies in the general media criticism.

Svenska Dagbladet

The odd thing is that so many people get so upset by the fact that the world is getting better. Many readers, conservatives and socialists alike, will squirm when they press ahead through Bolling’s relentless waves of good news. These waves shatter their predetermined worlds.

Dagens Nyheter

Mind the Shift

Mind the Shift4 days ago

124. Love and Time – Julia Mossbridge
Multidisciplinary scientist and writer Julia Mossbridge is not entirely on board with the “live in the now” mantra. We can extend the self in time, she says. And by doing that we break down boundaries.
When the boundaries of time are removed, the conditions of connection are also removed, which opens the door to unconditional love.
Mossbridge has done extensive research on precognition. An event that triggers precognition, she explains, is like a stick in the stream of consciousness. The stick creates a wake, but on the front end it also creates an area of backpressure, where the “arrow of time” is reversed.
“The stream of consciousness ‘prepares’ itself to go around the stick”, she says. (Audio links in comments.)

Julia Mossbridge: Boundless Time Opens Love

Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceiv...

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123. There Is No Death – Craig Hogan
Why are we so afraid to die?
“It’s a misunderstanding. People think this life is all there is. But we don’t die. Transition happens seamlessly. And there is no pain”, says afterlife expert, researcher, coach and writer Craig Hogan.
Hogan and his associates try to teach people about this.
There are innumerable reports from people who have been in contact with deceased loved ones. Some accounts are widely known, such as the ones of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymond Moody and J.B. Phillips.
Craig has himself had many experiences in which he has communicated with the other side.
Our scientific insights are so profound today that when knowledge about the afterlife once again becomes ubiquitous it will be on a higher level of understanding than earlier in history, he thinks. (Audio links in comments.)

Craig Hogan: There Is No Death

Why are we so afraid to die, I ask afterlife expert, researcher, coach and writer Craig Hogan.“It’s a misunderstanding. People think this life is all there i...

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Mind the Shift4 weeks ago

Climate catastrophism is totally divorced from science, and the US is the worst case, because the American climate catastrophism culture comprises four components instead of two, like everywhere else. Writer and physicist Andy West explains in this clip.

CLIMATE DISASTER Culture is at its Worst in the US | Andy West | Clips | Mind the Shift clips

In the US, the culture of climate catastrophism consists of four components, as opposed to in the rest of the world, where it consists of two, explains write...

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