Simon, with screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd, hosts PJTV's "Poliwood" show, covering the intersection of politics and Hollywood.

Simon's first non-fiction book, Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror, was published by Encounter Books in February 2009.

That is the question we are still asking ourselves ten years after that fateful day. I may have experienced it staring at a television screen in my Los Angeles bedroom, but watching those planes fly into the Twin Towers like a time bomb from the Middle Ages changed my world view, even altered many of my relationships, forever.

And, although I certainly didn’t know it at that moment, that assault on modernity led inexorably to the founding of Pajamas Media and ultimately PJTV.

I have to have some new thing happening in my life that engages me. It was later turned into a popular movie starring Richard Dreyfuss in 1978 for which Simon wrote the screenplay.

In "Raising the Dead," Wine is retained by an Arab organization to prove that it had nothing to do with a terrorist attack. It provides a counterbalance to mainstream media narratives, focusing on politics, culture, and current events.

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That's why there aren't more books. Here is the list to this point. They became known as the “war bloggers” and a good number of those bloggers are still with us now.

Was it by accident that Glenn Reynolds commenced Instapundit — our most popular blog — one month before 9/11?

Well, probably. He said, "the series reflects where I was and where I am.

Pajamas Media is very much a child of 9/11.

Not just because of me, of course. It has also spread to Latin America through the nefarious alliance of Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez.

And this Islamic ideology has a major advantage in durability over the totalitarian ideologies that pervaded the twentieth century — Nazism and communism.

He has been married three times. The cases taken on by Moses Wine were also unconventional. PJ Media's name, formerly Pajamas Media, is derived from a dismissive comment made by former news executive vice-president Jonathan Klein of CBS during the Killian documents affair involving then-CBS anchorman Dan Rather in the fall of 2004: "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances at 60 Minutes and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas".

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Simon began to develop the idea for Moses Wine when Alan Rinzler, who was working as an editor at Straight Arrow Books, a venture by Rolling Stone, suggested that a book Simon had written about a veteran of the Bay of Pigs Invasion who goes crazy and kidnaps the son of a radical lawyer, had poor commercial prospects.

Moses Wine was different from other fictional detectives that Simon saw as devoid of ethnicity, family, friends, or interests outside of work. In Moses Wine, Simon created a character that was proudly Jewish, divorced, and given to smoking marijuana. The Big Fix received the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel from the Crime Writers of Great Britain.

Simon remained conventionally liberal until the 1990s when he began asking questions in response to events such as the O.J.

Simpson murder trial. Founded in 2004 by a network primarily, but not exclusively, made up of conservatives and libertarians led by Simon, it was originally intended as a forum "with the intention of...