Is the Senate Bazarre?

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In a democracy you have to be able to get people to agree on the policy, even if their reasons for agreeing on the policy are completely incompatible. So not agreeing to disagree, it's agreeing for disagreeable reasons. But but as you're pointing out, even better is masking the disagreement by just highlighting some numerical value rather than a list of reasons. Why? Ya. I truly think if there were therapists around, they would have a problem with this system of sweeping everything under the rug of numbers and dates and ages and quantities of time. They now, this is superhealthy. So let us never talk about it again.

Time is everywhere, pervading each aspect of intellectual inquiry — from physics to philosophy to biology to psychology, and all the way up to politics. Considerations of time help govern a nation’s self-conception, decide who gets to vote and enjoy other privileges, and put limits on the time spent in office. Not to mention the role of time as a precious commodity, one that is used up every time we stand in line or fill out a collection of forms. Elizabeth Cohen shines a light on the role of time in politics and citizenship, a topic that has been neglected by much political theorizing.

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Elizabeth Cohen received her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. She is currently a professor of political science at Syracuse, and in March 2023 will move to Boston University to become the Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship in the Department of Political Science. Among her awards are the Moynihan Award for Outstanding Research and Teaching at Syracuse and the Best Book award from the American Political Science section on Migration and Citizenship, for The Political Value of Time.

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