Lecture presented by Hudson Senior Fellow, Amy A. Kass, on March 13, 2010, for Winter Weekend on Middlemarch, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities, at Bowdoin College.
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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)