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The Lost Art of Asking Questions

How Politics, Social Media, and Faith Have Forgotten the Power of Inquiry

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Paul Ian Clarke
Nov 28, 2025
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I keep six honest serving-men, (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.

— Rudyard Kipling

Have we lost the art of asking good questions?

I am starting to wonder if the world we live in is obsessed with answers, and those answers are often designed to close down a debate r…

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