Here’s an excerpt from our book about carbon footprints and how the dark arts of corporate PR appropriate ideas about individual choice and personal responsibility www.commondreams.org/opinion/cons...

Not too far from Westport CT and itching for something to do next Monday night 10.6? Hanging out with Alex Madva and me at the Westport Public Library wouldn't be your worst option. @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky westportlibrary.org/event/common...

Either/or thinking, pluralistic ignorance, satire, the view of racism as a habit, intersectionality, and "practicing politics the right way," in a truly (!) wide-ranging convo @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social and I had with Joy LaClaire on Forthright Radio @kzyx.bsky.social bit.ly/kzyx-forthri...

Sighting of our book in Porter Square, which we'll be visiting on 10/15! Love the placement here... "If anyone builds it, everyone dies: Why superhuman AI would kill us all" "Somebody should do something!" @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

Either mental health or social change? Or maybe both/and? Looking forward to the rest of the episode and catching up on @zerlinamornings.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DO9AwIfCX8K/ @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

And... of course I sent the wrong link to register for Prof. Montemayor's talk. This is the correct one: bit.ly/AI-attention Let me make it up to you with a cat photo...

Tune into Sirius XM Progress this morning to hear my coauthor my @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social and me! (You can also catch up later on the Sirius XM app -- which comes with a 90 day free trial if you download!) @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky #socialchange

Tuesday tidings! W/ @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social: @crow.house.gov of CO-06, @repstansbury.bsky.social of NM-01, Digital Media Strategist @espiers.bsky.social + Authors & Philosophers Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva! ☎️ 866-997-4748 📻 @siriusxmprog.bsky.social Ch. 127 siriusxm.us/Zerlina

Join us IRL at Cal Poly Pomona or in Zoomsville on Monday 9/29 (10am PST) to discuss "Cultivating Attention in the Age of AI" with @mainomenous.bsky.social! Register here: bit.ly/ai-dhc #AI #Attention #AIandSociety #DigitalHumanities #Philosophy #CalPolyPomona

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America. Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here. www.vox.com/politics/462...

NJ friends: come by the Montclair Book Center tomorrow at 2p to talk about social change! www.montclairbookcenter.com/pages/events... @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

"the song we couldn't write, this is what it sounds like"

And we're off!

New Good Is In The Details on the limits of individual responsibility & how choice is impacted by cultural and legal structures. Phil Professors Dr. Madva & Dr. Kelly discuss their book Somebody Should Do Something. And…a nod to introverts :) @rudysalo.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social #philsky

Grateful for opportunity on @profdolske.bsky.social and Rudy Salo's podcast! bit.ly/good-deets Longer form gave us breathing room to get deeper into the philosophy and social science @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social #booksky

Check your mailboxes, folks! 👀 Time to make some room on the bookshelf! somebody-book.com @mitpress.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social #booksky #socialchange #cats (maybe read the book first, and then make room)

It's pub day for Somebody Should Do Something! @madva.bsky.social, @dryan149.bsky.social, and I started working on it almost 5 years ago. A bajillion people helped us along the way. Thank you everyone. Never a better time than now to go fight for change together. @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

In "Somebody Should Do Something," @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, Alex @madva.bsky.social, & Daniel Kelly (@dryan149.bsky.social) combine compelling stories with science to show how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive structural change: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

This book by @madva.bsky.social, @dryan149.bsky.social and @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social magically appeases both my worried, Skeptical Academic Self, and my much more hopeful and admittedly atrophied Organizer Self. Go buy it!

Great conversation today on Hello Houston (@houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social) with Frank Billingsley, Ernie Manouse, Celeste Diaz Schurman, and my co-author @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social about gerrymandering, social change, and "losing loudly" www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b1e... @dryan149.bsky.social

@profdolske.bsky.social reflects on our convo on @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social with @dryan149.bsky.social (also ties back to an insightful previous episode on the "manosphere"). Gotta watch til the end! www.tiktok.com/@profdolske/... @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social

Co-author @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social celebrates the launch of "Somebody Should Do Something" at Greenlight Bookstore in NY this Wed., Sept. 17th! Join him and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for a discussion on the power of individual choices. Link for details: greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

Really enjoyed and grateful for this conversation... and the episode drops on Tuesday: publication day! 😬 @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social

This is what my Mom would say if she won an Emmy (no joke)

blushing emoji, prayer hands emoji www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-be...

See also @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's www.vox.com/politics/461... "We can hold two thoughts in our head at the same time"

Reminder to NYC friends: come talk with me about social change at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social on Weds 9/17. I'll be talking with the amazing @drkatemarvel.bsky.social about my new book. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0... @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Aaaaand NJ friends: I'll be at Montclair Book Center on Saturday 9.20. Come hang!

What is “normal politics?” Was Charlie Kirk “practicing politics in exactly the right way,” as @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social says? A bajillion people have commented on this already, but I think something important is missing. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Yes we really appreciated the chance to tell a bit of the story behind the story and share some of the key ideas from the book with @mikealbertus.bsky.social !

Very grateful for this opportunity and pleased with how it turned out! In addition to YouTube, you can also find the episode wherever you get your podcasts!

Thanks for the great write-up @cunychancellor.bsky.social! @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

he's my soda pop, my little soda pop

some Sunday sunshine in SoCal

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Sign of These Times

New book, new couch, old cat

Like Rumi said, "That's the funny thing about hope. Nobody else gets to decide if you feel it"... and maybe the TX Dems can feel hope for democracy even though they lost the short-term fight over gerrymandering! Big thanks to Paris Schutz for having us on!

25% pre-order sale at Barnes & Noble today through September 5th! Preorder this one if you haven't already: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/somebody-s... @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky @barnesandnoble.com

cat.

@madva.bsky.social and I wrote a guest essay in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com on Friday. Until we were bumped from the top spot by Bernie Sanders' op ed calling for RFK's impeachment (dammit Bernie! he's right tho), readers posted a lot of comments. A quick 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

Now is as good a time as any to put everyone on notice: my cat is better than yours. Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Like Rumi said, "I tried to hide but something broke. I couldn't sing but you give me hope." And we give you books! Thanks so much to Goodreads and MIT for making this happen!

What drives people to fight battles they expect to lose? And what happens next when they do? Check out our op-ed on Texas Democrats efforts against gerrymandering! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o... @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @philiplaughlin.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

"Mirror, mirror on my phone/ Who's the baddest? Us? Hello!"

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it, our book's about to come out and I think people like it!

Ah thanks Şerife! It was an incredible session... I usually pride myself at being able to engage with the Zoom chat but the students were so active I could barely keep up! Very encouraging to see so much enthusiasm for these important topics!

Have you, like K-Pop Demon Hunter Rumi, wondered "How am I supposed to fix the world... when I don't have my voice"? Come find your voice at one of our events this fall! Or invite us to a bookstore or library near you! @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

[We're] done hidin', now [we're] shinin' like [we're] born to be We dreamin' hard, we came so far, now I believe We're goin' up, up, up, it's our moment You know together we're glowing Gonna be, gonna be golden Huge thanks to David Rutledge and ABC's Philosopher's Zone for the opportunity!

Amazing workshop + people + field trips to UGR's Institute for Agricultural Research and San Isidro de Loja Coop! Gracias por incluirme, me diverti y aprendi mucho! Invítame de nuevo cuando quieras... Write-up by @joaconavajas.bsky.social: www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/la-... @anefcor.bsky.social