Smarty Pants

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Tune in every two weeks 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:

Family Values

Augustine Sedgewick on the history of paternity and patriarchy

Lingua Obscura

Laura Spinney on the spread of Proto-Indo-European

The Shipping News

Ian Kumekawa tells the story of the global economy in one barge

Coming Home

Craig Thompson digs up memories of farm labor and the history of ginseng

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