The current cosmological paradigm, \(\Lambda \hbox {CDM}\) , is characterized its expansive description of the history of the Universe, its deep connections to particle physics and the large amounts of data that support it. Nonetheless, \(\Lambda \hbox {CDM}\) ’s critics and boosters alike agree on one thing: it is the not the final cosmological theory and they are anxious to see it replaced by something better! However, given its successes and the absence of a worthy competitor, this replacement is not likely to happen soon. Nonetheless, after reviewing the impactful events in cosmology since the last Lemaître Workshop, I discuss the role that the recent evidence for evolving dark energy might play in getting cosmology to that better theory.
