Hello!

Welcome to Never Close the Inquiry, a gathering place for people that are not like-minded.

I’m a New York City lawyer raised in Salt Lake City by a father from Utah and a mother from rural Georgia. I married a beautiful woman from the Atlanta suburbs. Pick a political system anywhere from full-on Marxist communism to pack your bags, Jesus might be coming tomorrow, and I’ve got it in my family.

The fact that cities support Democrats and the rest support Republicans doesn’t mean the smart, good people live in place A and the dumb, evil people live in place B or vice versa—it’s much more of an indication that the conditions in which we’re raised and the influences to which we’re exposed have a big impact on what we come out believing. How often do we question that? Most of us hit adulthood pretty darn confident in beliefs we likely wouldn’t hold had we grown up with the dumb, evil people in place B.

If you are sincerely interested in understanding your ideological opponents; questioning your own positions; and building a bridge to allow for constructive, uplifting dialogue (and, perhaps, persuasion), then you might find an intellectual home here.

Point being, it gets a lot easier to get along and move things forward once you agree to Never Close the Inquiry.

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