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The tales we tell

From The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the North, a special issue on (Post)modernism and Globalization. Sebastian Valenzuela and Angela S. Brandao (PUC): Historical Dramas, Current Political Choices: Analyzing Partisan Selective Exposure with a Docudrama. Lorna Finlayson (Cambridge): On Mountains and Molehills: Problems, Non‐problems, and the Ideology of Ideology. Jurgen Brauer (Georgia Regents) and Raul Caruso (UCSC): “For Being Aboriginal”: Economic Perspectives on Pre-Holocaust Genocide and Mass Killings. David Schneiderman (Toronto): Constitutional Property Rights and Elision of the Transnational: Foucauldian Misgivings. Chris Wright on the value of Noam Chomsky. Robert Brandom reviews Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought by Paul Redding. Anna Kalashyan on the dream of women’s emancipation. Benjamin Morris on why John Nash matters. Scott Beauchamp on the tales we tell to cope with unwinnable wars: The mythology of Vietnam is now distorting accounts of the Iraq war. Ashley Nicole Black on why protestors turn violent. Deal with it: Danny Vinik on how Patty Murray makes things happen on polarized Capitol Hill. Andrew Gelman on political writing that sounds good but makes no sense: A political opinion piece shouldn't just be a well-shaped argument — it should also be consistent with reality.