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.

Special report on AI

[October 2024, In English]

How do STORM, Consensus and ChatGPT represent the nature of reality? An investigation for Frontier Journalists’ Network.

Covering Consciousness

[January 2023, In English]

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

Story ideas for the FJN

[Aug 2023 – present, In English]

Coverage of the intersection of science and spirituality, written for Frontier Journalists’ Network.

Covering the Placebo effect

[May 2024, In English]

Overview of research on the Placebo effect, written for Frontier Journalists’ Network

Drömmen om Atlantis kan visa sig sann

[Fokus, 10-09-2024, In Swedish]

About new findings in research on a possible lost civilization.

Ovälkommen nepo-baby kan avgöra presidentvalet

[Fokus, 07-17-2024, In Swedish]

About independent US presidential candidate RFK Jr.

”Människan klarar ett varmare klimat”

[Fokus, 07-08-2024, In Swedish]

Op-ed challenging the dominating climate narrative.

Därför hittar forskarna inte medvetandet på någon plats i hjärnan

[Fokus, 05-08-2024, In Swedish]

A review of cutting edge science in a field that was long suppressed.

Varför dör allt fler yngre?

[Fokus, 04-13-2024, In Swedish]

A mysterious continued excess mortality after the pandemic.

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 Shift1 week ago

137. Lured into a Technocratic Future – Jacob Nordangård
Jacob Nordangård used to be an enthusiastic member of the environmental movement. He began looking into its origins.
To his surprise, not to say dismay, he found that much of the green agenda, including the climate change narrative, had been developed by global elites – organizations, associations and large corporations, even Big Oil.
“The movement I was a part of was set up by very powerful people. It made me angry.”
He delved deeper, wrote a PhD thesis and several books, where he exposes the global behind-the-scenes structures that form much of the policies that later show up on the national scene. The goal, according to Jacob, is a globally managed world and a ‘new human’.
“The elite cheats in a natural system. A technocratic mindset has taken over”, he says.
(Audio links in comments)

Jacob Nordangård: Lured into a Technocratic Future

Jacob Nordangård used to be an enthusiastic member of the environmentalist movement. Always inquisitive, he began looking into its origins.To his surprise, n...

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Mind the Shift3 weeks ago

136. The Earth Wants to Speak with Us – Sten Linnander
Sten Linnander had a deeply transforming experience: The Earth made contact. As he heard a voice, he could see the planet in all her beauty, as if from space.
“The main message is that she is alive and conscious.”
If we establish an intimate, conscious connection with our planet, the possibilities are limitless, Earth has explained. We will be able to improve energy, food, health, relations, everything.
“I thought, if this is true, I just can’t say ‘this is not for me’. This is so incredibly big, it’s high time I do something”, says Sten.
He aims to build a device that will enable communication between the Earth and humanity as a whole and to produce small, affordable ‘living globes’ that display what the Earth looks like in real time.
(Audio links in comments.)

Sten Linnander: The Earth Wants to Speak with Us

In the midst of a spiritual ceremony in the fall of 1996, Sten Linnander had a deeply transforming experience: The Earth made contact with him. As Sten heard...

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Mind the Shift2 months ago

135. God's Virtual Reality – Simon Duan
Many find the simulation hypothesis gloomy. But what if the physical world is a meaningful simulation that we all co-create to be able to grow and learn?
Simon Duan’s theory, “Platonic computation”, unifies consciousness, mind and matter. It explains how matter is derived from consciousness. Metaconsciousness, its highest aspect, is the ultimate reality. It is contentless but contains infinite potential. Plato had a term for it: the realm of forms.
In Simon Duan’s model, this physical universe is assumed to be a simulation, rendered by the “Platonic computer” in the realm of forms.
Ultimately, we create this simulation ourselves. But some of us are less aware than others of what is actually going on.
“We can choose to be NPCs, non-playable characters, or to be co-creators”, says Simon.
(Audio links in comments.)

Simon Duan: God's Virtual Reality

As far as research of the non-physical world is concerned, Simon Duan should have quite a bit of credibility. He began his career in a robustly materialist e...

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