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Stephen Johnson
Executive Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.
The price of Christianity’s “broken bargain” with democracy
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
The story behind the internet’s most viral (and misunderstood) political meme
A study on the “moral circles” of liberals and conservatives gets drafted into the culture wars — with mixed results.
How Arc Institute is bringing science into the century of biology
There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
How the internet changed news, according to The Onion
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
Stephen Hawking’s famous voice belonged to this pioneering MIT scientist
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
A polyglot explains the tips (and myths) of learning new languages
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.