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Thomas B. Cotton '98, a government concentrator, lives in Adams House. His column will appear on alternate Wednesdays...
...scheduled to appear Tuesday on the Today Show, a big TV day since hours later her husband will deliver what will undoubtedly be the most-watched State of the Union Address is U.S. history. In Congress, meanwhile, the Democrats maintain their uneasy silence as the Republicans, sitting in tall cotton, relaxed, stretched, and let the presidency continue to unravel, thread by thread -- without their help...
Thomas B. Cotton's column will resume next semester...
Thomas B. Cotton's introduction of the Habermasian discourse-theoretic idea into a political dialogue of this nature presupposes the existential (and, for that matter, the essential) dialogues of a pre-political discursive space ("Habermas Had Descended," Dec. 5). Power and the forces that constitute power in the post-modern welfare state must have their say in any critique that attempts to synthesize the sociological with the epistemological; certainly, the post-modern ontology would seem to suggest as much. By taking up the discourse on race, Cotton also makes the mistake of intertwining alternative discourses in ways which portray them...
...Cotton implies in discussing the national dialogue on race, talk can be cheap. But talk can also be powerful if everyone is involved in the discussions as both speakers and listeners, and if everyone takes their own and others' ideas seriously. Dialogue is distinguished from chatter by its ability to force the participants to undergo self-examination at the same time that they are making attempts at persuasion. It would be nice to see the national dialogue on race materialize into some form of practical action. But to distinguish dialogue (as opposed to chatter) from action, or to suggest that...