Stephanie Bastek

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

The Firebrand and the First Lady

Read an excerpt from Patricia Bell-Scott’s book about Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday February 8, 2016

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

Read an excerpt from Mary Frances Berry’s new book about vote buying

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday February 1, 2016

The Society of Genes

Read an excerpt from Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher’s new book on evolutionary biology

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday January 20, 2016

Philip Sparrow Tells All

Read an excerpt from the lost essays of Samuel Steward

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday January 11, 2016

Unruly Equality

Read an excerpt from Andrew Cornell’s new history of anarchism

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday January 7, 2016

Masters of Empire

Read an excerpt from Michael A. McDonnell’s new book about Great Lakes Indians

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday December 22, 2015

One Child

Read an excerpt from Sarah Conley’s new book about the morality of having children in our imperiled world

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday December 14, 2015

Hamburgers in Paradise

Read an excerpt from Louise O. Fresco’s new book about the story of food

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday December 8, 2015

Database of Dreams

Read an excerpt from Rebecca Lemov’s new book about the prehistory of Big Data

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday November 24, 2015

The White Road

Read an excerpt from Edmund de Waal’s new book about porcelain

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday November 18, 2015

Indiana Absurd

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 17, 2024

Changing the Lens

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 10, 2024

Let Us Compare Mythologies

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 26, 2024

The Spirit of ’68

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 12, 2024

Reedies Against Racism

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 5, 2024

Sing, Muse

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 29, 2024

Dancing the Imperial Twist

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 4, 2023

Dying for Fashion

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 28, 2023

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