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Why God is never the real reason — and why we forget

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Why God is never the real reason — and why we forget

Across two thousand years, the headline has been faith. The story underneath is almost always something else.

10 min readJonas Book Editorial

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Extremism

From a Cairo schoolroom to the towers

How an idea travelled from al-Banna and Qutb to bin Laden — and what it tells us about ideas in our own time.

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World Events

Putin, the Patriarch, and the weaponising of faith

How a state turns a church into a uniform — and why it works.

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Psychology

The investigator's question every parent should learn

There is one sentence that opens children up — and it is the same one that opens up suspects.

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Parenting

When children ask: “Are we safe?”

The temptation is to lie. The better answer is harder, and lasts longer.

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Education

Three classroom prompts that change a discussion

Tested in real schools, with real eight-year-olds, on the hardest topics in the world.

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Writing for readers who refuse to stop asking why.

Why God is never the real reason — and why we forget

From a Cairo schoolroom to the towers

Putin, the Patriarch, and the weaponising of faith

The investigator's question every parent should learn

When children ask: “Are we safe?”

Three classroom prompts that change a discussion

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