"Irrespective of philosophical arguments, babies will still be born. Many of these babies will find themselves alone and in need of parents"

"Something as insubstantial as a poetic image, if it touches on some truth or real feeling, can launch transformations."

"If Ahmed’s sources of killjoy inspiration dislodge a reader’s sense of the most important feminist thinkers, all the better."

"Politics is that activity which is seen most clearly by the one who has no place."

"The momentum of the pandemic has facilitated an important shift in the way many people think about wage labour, employment, and capitalism"

"A philosophical argument can draw on a set of culturally specific ideas while also aiming at cross-cultural or universal insights."

"The abolitionist is calling for such a radical reform of society that we actually don’t know how humans will behave in that new future."

"Without clear descriptions, definitions, or examples of “woke”, it may seem Neiman is battling a series of straw-people."

"As a species, we still glance at the future, but it is now through a foreboding mist of dread more than an aspirational cloud of hope."

"We can only ever become, at best, more perfect failures: failures who finally understand the failures they are."

"I don’t think we owe the future anything, strictly speaking, and this is why the future can be so exciting."

"I confess to persistent envy while reading The Life Inside about the urgency that philosophical questions have in West’s classrooms. "

"In possession of a historical consciousness that has never before been so excruciatingly heightened, we are bowed beneath its weight."

"One of the important contributions that psychedelics bring is to offer a person novel conceptualizations of reality."

"The mere possibility that we might be living in a VR simulation is considered to be a reason to take it seriously as a theory of reality."

"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."

"In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."

"A 'morality' that jettisons moral responsibility, and that affirms that no one is deserving of anything, strikes many as implausible."

"It is not knowledge but rather ignorance that helps us to believe that new types of emancipation are someday possible."

"Distinctions can be made among things, but only from some or other arbitrary point of view."