The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual aid, because the astonishing thing about disasters is that people are often weirdly joyous in them, because they've recovered a sense of agency, a sense of power, etc.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.