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

Santa’s Slay Bells

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 23, 2022

By Land and By Sea

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 16, 2022

Girl Troubles

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 9, 2022

The Forgotten Radical

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 2, 2022

Roughing It

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 18, 2022

The Abortion Underground

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 11, 2022

Tulsa 2022

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 4, 2022

For the Love of Horror

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 28, 2022

The Fantasy of Real Life

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 21, 2022

Welcome to the Osmocosm

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 14, 2022

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