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Blake’s Warning about Radicals

While students are right to protest Israeli violence in Gaza, the authoritarian streak in certain extremists is disturbing. Blake reveals the danger in “The Grey Monk.”

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The Twisted Fingers Letting Go

Catherine Alder has a beautiful poem in which she calls upon us to unclench our fists. I reflect also upon two other works that feature clenched fists, Blake’s “Grey Monk” and George MacDonald’s “Lilith.”

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