Listen to the latest episode:
Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • Acast
Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Produced and hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
Have suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar.org
Episode List:
How the mosquito changed human history—for better and for worse
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 16, 2019
How belief in biological racial difference pollutes the world of science, from eugenics to genetics
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 09, 2019
Could human partnership be the secret to saving this Asian giant?
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 02, 2019
Linguist Gretchen McCulloch on the new rules of language
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, July 26, 2019
What one woman’s life between two countries can teach us about the humanitarian crisis at the border
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, July 12, 2019
Chronicling the disappearance of a remote Papua New Guinean tongue—and everything else that goes with it
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 28, 2019
How true crime stories were used to fan the flames of homophobia—and let killers get away with murder
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 21, 2019
How car culture swallowed America
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 14, 2019
The first biography of Geoffrey Chaucer in a generation explores the places that inspired the English poet
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 07, 2019
How 19th-century beef created modern America
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, May 31, 2019
