Stephanie Bastek

Stephanie Bastek is the senior editor of the Scholar and the producer/host of the Smarty Pants podcast.

From Black Cabs to Blacklisted

Mike Isaac on how Uber went so wrong

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 25, 2019

Where the Wild Things Are

How a radical conservation effort is transforming a former farm into a verdant, biodiverse landscape—and challenging our ideas about what conservation looks like

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 18, 2019

Live, Laugh, Love Ancient Philosophy

Bringing self-help back to its ancient Greek roots

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 11, 2019

The Banjo and the Ballot Box

How country music has been used on the campaign trail—and in political office

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 4, 2019

What Makes a Refugee?

A writer explores how displaced people, and adopted countries, should respond to the highest levels of displacement on record

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 27, 2019

Why Has American Classical Music Ignored Its Black Past?

And the immigrant composer who predicted a different future

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 13, 2019

Fashion Kills

How our hunger for more clothes is killing the environment and exploiting workers

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 6, 2019

The Next Menu

What will our dinner tables look like 30 years into the climate crisis?

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 30, 2019

One Job Should Be Enough

How workers’ voices were silenced in America—and how they’re fighting back

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2019

Bloodsuckers

How the mosquito changed human history—for better and for worse

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 16, 2019

Kinship and Contradictions

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 13, 2024

Overconsumed

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 29, 2024

American Horror Story

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday October 31, 2024

The Writing on the Wall

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 18, 2024

This Woman’s Work

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 4, 2024

Queen of the Night

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 20, 2024

A Toothsome Tale

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 6, 2024

A Rebel to Remember

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2024

Going for Gold

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 9, 2024

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