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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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)