The Mona Charen Show

By The Bulwark

After a great five year run on Beg to Differ, Mona Charen brings you a new show dedicated to deepening your understanding of complex issues and trends facing society. Each week she'll engage an expert... more

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The podcast currently has 263 episodes available.

The Mona Charen Show episodes:

January 08, 2025 Coming soon—a new show hosted by Mona Charen
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2min
December 20, 2024 The Final Beg to Differ
Mona and the gang bid farewell to this format, discuss what will replace it, and offer a glimpse of future plans.

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Highlights / Lowlights:

Mona outlined the future of her new show.

Bill previews his forthcoming book on political psychology.

Linda: The Silver Candlesticks: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition, Linda’s forthcoming book, which you can pre-order now! Make sure you sign up for Linda’s Substack.

Damon: While Damon finishes his forthcoming book on Leo Strauss, go down the Straussian rabbithole at Notes from the Middleground.

Referenced work: Bret Stephens’s “Done With Trump” in the NYT

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1h 19min
December 13, 2024 Trump's Most Dangerous Nominee
Noah Smith joins to discuss what Tulsi Gabbard could do to America, the other anti-qualified nominees, the Penny/Mangione cases, and what Syria should remind us of.

Highlights / Lowlights

Mona: Rupert Murdoch's Succession Fiasco, Clive Irving at Vanity Fair

Linda: Why Does Pete Hegseth Keep Talking About ‘Warfighters’? Elliot Ackerman at The Free Press.

Bill: His WSJ column: Save a Reagan Initiative From Musk and Ramaswamy

Damon: When Democracy’s Defenders Turn Into Its Gravediggers, Yascha Mounck

Noah makes his reasoned pitch as to why rabbits make excellent pets.
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1h 10min
December 06, 2024 Is the Press Preemptively Caving to Trump?
Matt Bennett joins to discuss the most dangerous Trump appointments and the worrying signals of fear by MSNBC and others.

Highlights / Lowlights

Mona: The Iron Man of America’s op-ed pages (David Von Drehle, WaPo) and Mona’s contribution to the George Will tribute symposium, ‘Conservatism’s Vital Champion.’

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen

Matt: The attempted Martial Law coup in South Korea (lowlight) and the response of South Korean politicians and citizens (highlight).

Bill: The DOGE versus the NED by James Piereson (The New Criterion)

Linda: Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth See the Same Enemies (Carlos Lozada, NYT)

Damon: The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the perverse glee of some on the very online left. (Lowlights)

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1h 4min
November 22, 2024 Humiliation Theater
Robert Tracinski joins to discuss Trump's attack on government, his execrable appointees, and what Dems should do going forward.

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Damon: Russ Vought's appointment to OMB and the Nancy Mace / Sarah McBride performative cruelty.

Linda: JD Vance appearing in all of those Senate meetings with Matt Gaetz, and A Free Press Conversation with Natan Sharansky

Mona: Hong Kong's jailing of 45 democracy activists sparks criticism from foreign governments, rights groups (CBS)

Bill: House passes bill that would allow Treasury to target nonprofits it deems to support terrorism

Robert: The RFK Jr. McDonalds Photo

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1h 13min
November 15, 2024 As Bad As We Thought
David French and Larry Diamond join the group to mull the nature of Trump's victory and the stupefying appointments to DOJ and DNI.

Highlights / Lowlights

David French: Politics are terrible and sports are terrible, at least for David. Kentucky Wildcats, Tennessee Titans, and Ja Morant’s injury.

Damon Linker: A viral tweet and the disappointing Republican whataboutism.

Larry Diamond: A vignette about Matt Gaetz’s selection and surprising a prominent Republican with the news.

Bill Galston: The Onion has won the bid for Infowars’ assets

Mona Charen: Season 2 of Bad Sisters.

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1h 1min
November 08, 2024 Kleptocracy Cometh
The Atlantic's David Frum joins the group to analyze the election and consider the implications for domestic and foreign policy.

Highlights / Lowlights:

Damon: The work of Ruy Texiera and Nate Cohn

Linda: My Manifesto for Despairing Democrats by Nick Kristof

Bill: ‘Invisible’ older women speak up at the ballot box by Karen Tumulty

Mona: Trump transition team co-chair endorses Kennedy anti-vax theories and says he would be able to access health data

David: Earth experiencing warmest year on record – again, scientists say
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1h 16min
November 01, 2024 Who Are You Calling Garbage?
Tim Miller joins to discuss the big picture about 2024, why Harris could not run as a change agent, and America's oligarchs.

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Highlights / Lowlights

Linda Chavez: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and the Dodgers World Series Victory (Highlights)

Tim Miller: Trump wearing an orange vest and driving a trash truck. (Both)

Mona Charen: Derrick Anderson's Fake Family (Lowlight)

Bill Galston: The Dodgers (Highlight)
Nikki Haley's Get Out the Vote Closing Argument (Lowlight)

Damon Linker: Charlie Kirk: Harris Wants Women to Lie to Their Husbands (Lowlight)

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1h 17min
October 25, 2024 Why One Never Trumper Can't Endorse Kamala Harris
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins the regular group to discuss his objections to Harris, the likelihood of a Trump fascistic reign, and which party has gone crazier.

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Highlights / Lowlights

Ross: Can AI be blamed for a teen’s suicide? (NYT)

Damon: Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos (MAX)

Linda: The Ghosts of John Tanton (ProPublica)

Mona: The Envy of the World (The Economist)

Bill: The Fight for a New Israel (Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs)

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1h 13min
October 18, 2024 An Underrated Threat: The Trump Corruption
The New Yorker's Susan Glasser joins the group (plus Philip Bump) to discuss Harris's Fox interview, Trump's spiraling mental state, and the oligarchy/corruption a second Trump term would usher in.

Highlights / Lowlights

Mona: Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here's One. By Bret Stephens
The FTC is making it easier to cancel subscriptions.

Damon: Confessions of a Republican Exile by David Brooks

A spate of recent content from Matthew Yglesias

Susan: The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon

Philip: A preview of this weekend's "How to Read This Chart" newsletter

Linda: The General's Warning by Tom Nichols

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1h 6min

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How many episodes does The Mona Charen Show have?

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