Stephanie Bastek

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

Don’t Forget the Death Workers

Hayley Campbell on the hidden labor after life

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 19, 2022

When Science Is Not the Answer

Sabine Hossenfelder considers the biggest questions in physics and philosophy

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 12, 2022

Mob Music

T. J. English on the surprising relationship between two grand American traditions—jazz and organized crime

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 5, 2022

The Original Influencer

Hilary Hallett on the enduring impact of Hollywood tastemaker Elinor Glyn

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 29, 2022

Take Two Shots and Call Me in the Morning

Camper English on when alcohol was the cure

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 22, 2022

You, Me, and the Deep Blue Sea

Matthew Green explores Britain’s ghost towns and drowned settlements

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 15, 2022

How the Black Creek Lost Their Citizenship

Caleb Gayle on a complicated tale of belonging

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 8, 2022

Free, Legal, On Demand

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

The Shipping News

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 9, 2025

Coming Home

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 25, 2025

Muscle Memory

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 11, 2025

The Root Cause

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 14, 2025

Something New in the West

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 28, 2025

Family/History

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 14, 2025

Keepers of the Old Ways

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 17, 2025

The Snow Maiden

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday December 30, 2024

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