Táíwò’s writings on race and class have circulated in the artworld like instruction manuals since the second election of Donald Trump. The philosopher and Georgetown professor’s books Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism (2021) and Elite Capture: How thePowerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) (2022), as well as his articles for magazines and newspapers, give context to what is at stake now. His work explores what happens when extreme economic disparities are cemented into law and climate protections are gutted – a state of affairs he identifies as ‘climate apartheid’ – or when frustration with the liberal managerial class starts coming from the right and the left, and prominent cultural institutions are seen caving to anti-DEI mandates. Táíwò is a thinker for our times, as well as for the future: in the face of ecological and political crises, he recommends working ‘like an ancestor’ to shape a world worth inheriting.