Valuable reflections from former Utah Governor and former Utah County Commissioner Gary Herbert, in an interview with Paul Edwards.

Disagreement can be constructive.

It is our moral duty to exercise our agency to make government serve more people more effectively and more fairly

While national politics is a miserable spectacle most days, the place that most needs your attention is your city.

On January 24, Paul Edwards at the Wheatley Institute at BYU held an interview with Princeton Professors, Robby George and Cornell West. George and West are good friends. They are also on different sides of the political spectrum. You can read about the remarkable event and watch the video here.

Inspired by a recent Engage workshop, Aimee Stewart, published this recent LTE about her family’s experience during an earlier era of immigration fear directed at Japanese Americans. This appeared in the Deseret News on February 15, 2025 and is here reposted with permission of the author.

Parties are not for identity, nor are they ends in themselves. They are tools, and they are most effective when more people, acting out of loyalty to principle rather than to ideology, get more involved, not less.

America is in crisis over its identity. Again. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last. Principled citizen engagement, motivated by a desire to heal our communities, is necessary to resolve the crisis and sustain the nation over time.

Our society asks hard things of us at this moment. I cling to my faith because faith helps me to do hard things.