The Unpopular View is for people tired of tribal talking points who want evidence‑based analysis on fraud, welfare, climate, and global governance.
I’m Michael Brown, a social and environmental risk analyst and former NGO founder with decades of field work across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific.
I’ve worked on corruption, climate mitigation, conservation, mining governance, and community‑led development in more than 35 countries. Each episode combines stories from conflict‑affected rural areas with hard data to unpack big policy myths from both left and right. If you care about how public money, natural resources, and climate policy really work on the ground, subscribe for clear, unsentimental analysis that most media skip.
Latest Episodes
Africa's Demographic Surge: Youth, Technology, and the Race Between Transformation and Instability
Episode 9 of The Unpopular View, Michael Brown, is a the conclusion of this 3/3 sit down with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou in a first “North–South dialogue” on Afr...
Critical Minerals and the New Resource Competition: Africa's Leverage or Another Extraction Cycle?
Episode 8 of The Unpopular View, Michael Brown, is a part 2/3 of his sits down with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou in a first “North–South dialogue” on African reali...
North-South Conversation on Africa and Its Future
In Episode 7 of The Unpopular View, Michael Brown sits down with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou in a first “North–South dialogue” on African realities, American assu...
From Timbuktu to Tehran: Why American Leaders Keep Misreading the Landscape
Episode 6 is a critique of how U.S. leaders and institutions repeatedly misread societies they intervene in—because they rely on the wrong frameworks and reward the wr...
India, Israel & 50K Workers: What happens to the Palestinians?
This episode argues that one of the most consequential developments in the Israel–Palestine landscape isn’t a headline-grabbing battle or speech—it’s a “boring” labor ...
