Your Hidden Political Power: Michael Brownstein
Your Hidden Political Power: Michael Brownstein  
Podcast: Future Hindsight
Published On: Thu Dec 18 2025
Description: We discuss  orienting our personal choices toward the collective in order to make the changes in the systems that organize our world.   Michael's civic action toolkit recommendations are:  Orient your personal choices towards the collective Do something, and do it with others   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.     Let's connect! Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/   Discover new ways to #BetheSpark:  https://www.futurehindsight.com/spark    Follow Mila on X:  https://x.com/milaatmos    Follow Michael on BlueSky:  https://bsky.app/profile/michaelbrownstein.bsky.social   Read Somebody Should Do Something:  https://bookshop.org/shop/futurehindsight    Sponsor:  Thank you to Shopify! Sign up for a $1/month trial at shopify.com/hopeful.   Early episodes for Patreon supporters: https://patreon.com/futurehindsight  Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Michael Brownstein Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producer: Zack Travis