VDH Interviews Roger Simon
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
4.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Roger Simon, novelist, commentator and screenwriter. The cover many topics from religiosity to his current book, "American Refugees."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson show. Victor is the Martin and E. |
| 0:06.0 | Anderson Senior Fellow Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution |
| 0:10.0 | and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History |
| 0:12.0 | at Hillsdale College. |
| 0:14.4 | This is our weekend episode and we have a visitor for the weekend episode, Roger Simons. |
| 0:20.7 | He is formerly the CEO of Jama's Media and a member of the directors of the |
| 0:27.0 | Writers Guild of America. He is also the president of the West Coast Branch of |
| 0:32.0 | Penn, which is the Poets, Play Rights, Editors, |
| 0:34.7 | Essa, novelist organization. |
| 0:38.0 | He has contributed to many newspapers and journals, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:46.8 | commentary, Real Clear Politics, and City Journal. |
| 0:51.9 | Roger's most recent novels are The Goat, which he published in 2019 and it was described as |
| 0:58.6 | his best novel by the new criterion, which is one of our favorite magazines and I always recommend the new |
| 1:06.0 | criterion so they must be right about that novel and also his most recent novel American refugees that is just published in 2024. |
| 1:17.6 | He is finally the editor at large of the Epic Times currently and another favorite among this podcast. |
| 1:28.7 | So we always recommend going to the Epic Times, but we're so happy to welcome Roger Simon. |
| 1:35.0 | Stay with us and we'll be right back after these messages. Welcome back. So Victor I'm going to go ahead and turn this over to you so you can |
| 1:50.3 | probably do a much better introduction of Roger since you and |
| 1:54.0 | Roger have been friends for a while. |
| 1:56.2 | Yeah, I've known Roger for 20 years. |
| 1:58.4 | He was the one that recruited me to write for Pajama's media where I think I Roger I did it for 12 |
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