Stephanie Bastek

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

An Epirotic Odyssey

One man’s quest to uncover Europe’s oldest surviving folk music

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 1, 2018

Revenge of the Nerds

How geek culture finally triumphed

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 25, 2018

Stitching History

What an old quilt can teach us about antebellum America

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 11, 2018

Get Rich or Die Trying

In the shadow of the Silicon Valley of death

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 4, 2018

When the Chicken Hits the Fan

Bobbie Ann Mason on fiction and character

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 27, 2018

The Floral Gospel

How the Plant Messiah saves species from the brink of extinction

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 20, 2018

Voicing a Legend

Jeremy Irons on reading T. S. Eliot and why poetry matters

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 13, 2018

Go Fish

The story of a Senegalese fishing community on the brink

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 6, 2018

Burmese Daze

How political powers in Myanmar engineered the Rohingya crisis

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 30, 2018

To Infinity (and Beyond!)

Math for the masses

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 23, 2018

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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