Stephanie Bastek

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

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

A Rebel to Remember

Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2024

Going for Gold

Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 9, 2024

Graveyard Clay and The Dirty Dust

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday March 16, 2016

The Profiteers

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday March 9, 2016

You Could Look It Up

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday February 23, 2016

The Wonder of Wuthering Heights

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday February 16, 2016

The Firebrand and the First Lady

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday February 8, 2016

The Society of Genes

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday January 20, 2016

Philip Sparrow Tells All

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday January 11, 2016

Unruly Equality

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday January 7, 2016

Masters of Empire

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday December 22, 2015

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