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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President Donald Trump shakes hands with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen as he announces a trade deal with the EU at Trump Turnberry golf club on July 27, 2025, in Turnberry, Scotland. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)