Stephanie Bastek

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

Go Tell It on the Mountain

A tribute to our protected wilderness

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 22, 2018

Letter From Underwater

Facing rising sea levels on our own shores

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 15, 2018

How to Be a Wolf

An ode to Anthony Bourdain

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 8, 2018

Lock Her Up

The decades-long U.S. government plan to imprison “promiscuous” women

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 8, 2018

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

Keepers of the Old Ways

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 17, 2025

The Snow Maiden

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday December 30, 2024

Ho Ho Horror

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 27, 2024

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

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