Stephanie Bastek

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

The Most Famous Unknown Artist

David Sheff puts Yoko Ono in the spotlight

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 28, 2025

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 14, 2025

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 28, 2025

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 14, 2025

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 31, 2025

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 17, 2025

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

Neither Snow Nor Rain

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday June 27, 2016

Superheroes Are So Gay!

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday June 27, 2016

The Sting of the Wild

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday June 21, 2016

Good Neighbors

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday June 14, 2016

India’s War

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday June 8, 2016

America’s Snake

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday May 24, 2016

My Life with Wagner

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday May 17, 2016

The Edge of the Empire

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday May 10, 2016

The Jazz of Physics

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday May 3, 2016

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