Scott Porch

Scott Porch is a contributing writer for The Daily Beast on books and politics. He is also a podcast producer for Starburns Audio and a contributing writer for Decider.

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The Americans Who Give Nationalism a Dirty Name

Sometimes they’re white nationalists, sometimes Christian nationalists, but as sociologist Samuel Perry says, “It’s complicated, but it’s essentially an ethnic identity.”

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POLITICS AS PAYBACK

Trump Turns the Georgia Primary Into His Personal Vendetta

“I think Georgia is the biggest test for Donald Trump’s influence in the entire nation,” says political reporter Greg Bluestein.

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Louis Menand Dynamites the Cliche of the Sleepy Fifties

The Pulitzer-winning historian spent a decade researching and writing “The Free World,” a reexamination of Cold War America that turns a lot of old assumptions inside out.

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CANON FODDER

How to Tackle a Bullying, Alcoholic, Racist Named Hemingway

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick portray an insecure, vain, depressed, unfaithful, visionary modernist in PBS’s “Hemingway”, and reframe his complicated place in the literary canon.

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