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Front Porch Republic “Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age.” In an essay that rings even more true after the events of Wednesday, Yuval Levin warns would-be populist leaders to shun the temptations of fantasy and root their words and actions in reality: It is the task of leaders in populist eras … to offer ways to use political power effectively to address [populist] complaints that are rooted in reality. And they need to push to the side or disperse the power of those complaints that are rooted in fantasy, so that they don’t render populist movements pointless, ridiculous, or...

Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes – Some have got broken – and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are enough Left-overs to do, warmed-up, for the rest of the week – Not that we have much appetite, having drunk such a lot, Stayed up so late, attempted – quite unsuccessfully – To love all of our relatives, and in general Grossly overestimated our powers. Once again As in previous years we have seen the actual V...

A Storm Was Coming, For the Time Being and The Trouble with Nature also departed triumphant from the fifth incarnation of the Galician festival There Will Be No More Night by Eléonore Weber (©Perspectivefilms) Back for a fifth year, the Novos Cinemas Pontevedra International Film Festival (15–20 December) rose to the challenges of 2020 with a hybrid format, combining screenings at the Teatro Principal de Pontevdra and on the streaming platform Filmin. This year’s programme shone a special spotlight on filmmaker Luis López Carrasco (

Graphic novels take top prizes at Taipei book fair awards 12/15/2020 10:02 PM The winning books. CNA photo Dec. 15, 2020 Taipei, Dec. 15 (CNA) Two graphic novels about a man in a psychiatric hospital and the daily lives of nine women in Taipei won top prizes at the 2021 Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) Book Prize on Tuesday, the first time graphic novels have won in the fiction and non-fiction categories. The graphic novel "A Trip to Asylum" by Pam Pam Liu is set in the 1990s, and follows a man as he is admitted to and eventually released from a psychiatric hospital. At the awards ...

TIBE Book Prize winners named ANNUAL ACCOLADES: A presentation ceremony for the awards is to be held on Jan. 26 at the opening of next year’s Taipei International Book Exhibition, which runs until Jan. 31 By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter The Taipei Book Fair Foundation yesterday announced the winners of its annual awards, with graphic novels simultaneously receiving top honors in the fiction and nonfiction categories for the first time. Ahead of the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) each year, the foundation unveils the winners of its ...