Stephanie Bastek

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

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday December 30, 2024

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 27, 2024

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 13, 2024

Overconsumed

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 29, 2024

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 15, 2024

American Horror Story

Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday October 31, 2024

The Writing on the Wall

Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 18, 2024

This Woman’s Work

Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 4, 2024

Queen of the Night

Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 20, 2024

A Toothsome Tale

Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 6, 2024

One Job Should Be Enough

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2019

Bloodsuckers

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 16, 2019

Junk Science

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 9, 2019

A Delicate Elephant Balance

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 2, 2019

Aida’s Story

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 12, 2019

How a Language Dies

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 28, 2019

Crimes Against Sexuality

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 21, 2019
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