Stephanie Bastek

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

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Tamara Dean on abortion in the 19th century

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 1, 2022

Split City, U.S.A.

April White on the hottest place to untie the knot in 1890s America

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 24, 2022

The Joyce of Cooking

Flicka Small on how food is everything in the world of Ulysses

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday June 16, 2022

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Sloane Crosley on her new novel

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 10, 2022

Once Upon a Time in Manchester

Hopwood DePree on the quest to restore his ancestral English seat

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 3, 2022

Bird of America

Jack E. Davis on how we revere and revile the bald eagle

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 27, 2022
Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

Life Is a Highway

Dan Albert on how car culture swallowed America

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 20, 2022

Crowdsourced Clairvoyance

Sam Knight on the psychiatrist who tried to predict disaster

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 13, 2022

The Intelligence Gatherers

The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 6, 2022

New Name for an Old Ceremony

Gregory Smithers on two-spirits in Indigenous American history

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 29, 2022

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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