Scott Newman is a writer, researcher, and operator.

His literary debut, The Night Before the Morning After, won four first-place Firebird Book Awards and a Pencraft Book Award. His second book, Somewhere Sometime, is slated to publish in autumn 2026. His essays have appeared in Quillette, where he was an Associate Editor, as well as The Spectator,The Ski Journal, Areo, and Penthouse. He captains the Ski Club of International Journalists’ USA chapter. His first podcast, 27 Rouge, featured writers, academics, musicians, journalists, and founders from around the world. His second podcast, Solitary, Poor, Nasty, British, and Short, featureed interviews with students and professors at Oxford.

He holds an AB from Princeton in History, an MPhil from Oxford in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, and is currently completing a PhD in Philosophy of Law at Leiden University.

Focused on special projects, he has worked in media, defense tech, and finance.