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Darcie Draudt (JHU): First Mover Responses to North Korean Instability: The Intervention-Legitimacy Paradox. Dani Rodrik, an influential economist at Harvard, took on the role of sleuth and political activist when his father-in-law, a retired general in Turkey, was accused of leading a plot to overthrow the government there. Personal budgeting advice promises to set us free, but only on an individual level; instead we need social programs that would allow any woman to flip a finger to unsavory work situations and domestic abuse. Helaine Olen on the difference between good and bad debt: More and more of us believe all debt is a curse — a new study shows how wrong we are. From Magforum, Tony Quinn on a happy end to a magazine; and on the surprising revival of Hitler and Mussolini. You can download Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics by Jesse Cohn.