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SUMMARY:Renewing Hope: Finding Our Way Through a Crisis of Meaning
LOCATION:Norlin Library British & Irish Studies Room (Norlin Library M549\
 , 5th Floor)\, 1157 18th Street\, Boulder\, CO 80309
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, November 19\, 2026\nTime: 11:00 am–12:15 pm\n
 Where: British & Irish Studies Room (Norlin Library M549\, 5th Floor)\nRS
 VP here\n\nAbout the Lecture\n\nMany people now sense that the troubles o
 f free societies run deeper than politics or economics: polarization\, ce
 nsorship\, and a loss of faith in freedom itself point to a crisis of mea
 ning. Drawing on the philosopher-scientist Michael Polanyi\, historian Le
 nore T. Ealy traces that crisis from the Enlightenment’s competing revolu
 tions through twentieth-century totalitarianism to the present\, showing 
 how attempts to control meaning\, whether through ideology\, technocracy\
 , or state power\, undermine both truth and liberty. She argues that scie
 nce\, faith\, and freedom are best understood as practices of exploration
  rather than control\, and that hope means giving up the wish to master t
 he future so we can meet reality\, and one another\, with humility and co
 urage.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nLenore T. Ealy\, Ph.D.\, serves as Vicerre
 ctora Internacional at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and i
 s founding president of The Philanthropic Enterprise\, a research institu
 te dedicated to understanding how philanthropy and voluntary social coope
 ration promote human flourishing. She previously served as senior fellow 
 for communities at the Charles Koch Institute and has held program roles 
 at the Heritage Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Eal
 y earned her PhD in the history of moral and political thought from Johns
  Hopkins\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/f70f5db7-588a-45cb-bd50-3c1aaa0c4
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