Politics
Caesar’s Dues
When society frays, the answer is not to force righteousness, but to embrace liberty that lets truth and virtue persuade.
Connor Hansen
March 27, 2026
When society frays, the answer is not to force righteousness, but to embrace liberty that lets truth and virtue persuade.
Believing that BYU’s distinctive religious heritage can be maintained without intentional efforts to preserve it is naive.
By redefining hatred and easing charges, bills like Canada’s Bill C-9 could make self-censorship the price of social peace.
Political anger is pushing protests into worship spaces. What happens when the inside-outside line collapses?
The pain from religious violence that Latter-day Saints have experienced should inspire us to be better advocates for the religiously persecuted.
Who guards freedom in polarized times? Civic doubt, pluralist respect, and local ties, not outrage, preserve liberty.
What defined the first national Thanksgiving? Gratitude to God, the Constitution, and a forgotten founder.
Why remain when doubt seems reasonable? Faith trusts revelation, finds strength in community, and chooses belief.
Dallin H. Oaks pairs law with love, showing humility, outreach, and a call to hold truth with tenderness.
How can peacemaking prevail amid rage? When peace is chosen with faith in God, beauty from ashes, and outreach.
Constitutional conflicts can arise when religious language and behavior take an aggressive and domineering posture toward government and society as a whole.
Why do extremes fail? John 6 reveals why loaves and fishes do not justify utopian politics over covenant conversion.