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Francois Tanguay-Renaud (York): Basic Challenges for Governance in Emergencies. From the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, Clementine Bry (Savoie), Fabrice Gabarrot (Blaise Pascal) and Claudia Toma (Louvain): The Blond, The Dumb and the Ugly: Does Self-Stereotyping Mediate Prime-to-Behavior Effects? Simon Springer (Otago): Anarchism! What Geography Still Ought to Be. Jason Malikow on the legacy of the anarchist “Black Bloc” as political actor. From Adbusters, a special issue on the Big Ideas of 2012. Ezra Klein on how Harvard’s liberal-arts failure is Wall Street’s gain. David Dobbs on what an autopsy looks like — and why you need one. Noam Scheiber on the memo that Larry Summers didn’t want Obama to see. Playboy interviews Paul Krugman. Cormac McCarthy on the Santa Fe Institute’s brainy halls. Offence goes viral: Richard King on the ever-increasing power of "offendedness" in public debate. William Saletan on Mitt Romney’s abortion record: flip-flop or conversion? Pakistan pushed ahead with its surprise demolition of the compound where U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden last year.