Your Hidden Political Power: Michael Brownstein

December 18th, 2025

”Doing anything is usually better than doing nothing.”

We discuss  orienting our personal choices toward the collective in order to make the changes in the systems that organize our world.

Michael Brownstein is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Jay College, and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He’s also the co-author of Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.

Your civic action toolkit recommendations from Michael are:

  1. Orient your personal choices towards the collective

  2. Do something, and do it with others

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Credits:

Host: Mila Atmos 

Guest: Michael Brownstein

Executive Producer: Mila Atmos

Producer: Zack Travis

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