Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Brigham Young didn’t become controversial because he was simple.

He became controversial because we stopped allowing complex people from the past to be understood as human beings.

In this conversation with Dr. Dan Peterson, we follow one question from start to finish:

What do we lose when we replace understanding with judgment?

It’s not about excusing history.
It’s about whether we’ve made it too simple.

Because how we judge the past shapes how we see the present.