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Oct 30, 2025
Join Mark C Meade for a discussion regarding the importance of The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton.
Mark C. Meade is the Assistant Director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. In over 20 years at the Center as an archivist, he has assisted scholars from around the world while himself presenting...
Oct 27, 2025
Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Nicholas Buccola, PhD for the Capt. Daniel H. Utley Memorial Lecture, a talk entitled "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King and the Struggle over an American Ideal."
Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He...
Oct 16, 2025
Join #McConnellCenter scholars for a presentation from Dr Blanco explaining the importance of Hayek's work and how to understand it in modern times.
Abby Hall Blanco is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. She is a Senior Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center at George...