Slavoj Zizek in an interview with Michael Hauser:

So I think that, I’m very traditional basically, that German idealism, the metaphysics of German idealism, still offers the best conceptual tools to deal with the crisis we are approaching. Because, as Hegel knew, philosophy and crisis are always connected. All philosophy, it’s clear, Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, even Plato. Plato—you cannot imagine Plato without the political crisis of Greece. No wonder that Plato’s representative book is The Republic which typically, although you have all of Plato’s ontology there, the metaphor of the cave and so on, but nonetheless all this emerges to answer which kind of political order do we need.

I like this because not only does it conform to some of my own ideas about the intersection between history and philosophy, but Zizek also manages to tie together issues relating to the overlap between politics and ontology in a brief but clever way. Another good example: the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake.