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Poem of the Day: ‘Oh could I raise the darken’d veil’

Without Nathaniel Hawthorne, how can we understand the return of a bastard puritanism in the Woke movement, or grasp the psychological self-esteem that comes from an ostensible moral self-hatred?

Charles Osgood: 'Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne,' detail, 1840.
Charles Osgood: 'Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne,' detail, 1840. Via Wikimedia Commons