The Mona Charen Show

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April 06 Confronting Anti-Semitism, Left and Right (w/ David Frum)
David Frum analyzes the roots of both left and right-wing anti-Semitism and what it means for a liberal democracy.
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1 hr 1 min
March 30 RFK's War on Vaccines Is a Political Loser
Jonathan Cohn joins Mona to discuss the growing public health crisis under RFK Jr.’s leadership at HHS. From vaccine rollbacks to misinformation about autism and common medications, they walk through how policy decisions are already affecting real people—and why diseases like measles are making a comeback.
They also look at the politics: internal pushback inside the Trump orbit, warning signs from polling, and whether any of this can be stopped before the damage spreads further.
59 min
March 23 DOGE Dumbed Down the Nation (w/ Jessica Riedl)
Brookings scholar Jessica Riedl analyzes the DOGE debacle and the failure of Americans to make grown up choices about spending and taxes.
44 min
March 16 Candace Owens Is Tearing MAGA Apart (w/ Will Sommer)
Will Sommer takes us on a tour of the groypers and other right wing influencers.
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47 min
March 09 Why Primaries Reward The Most Extreme Candidates (w/ Nick Troiano)
Mona Charen talks with Unite America’s Nick Troiano about the structural problem driving America’s political polarization: the primary system.
42 min
March 03 Tom Nichols: There Are 500 Ways This War Goes Wrong
In this emergency episode of The Mona Charen Show, Tom Nichols lays out the tremendous risks Trump has taken with Iran war.
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55 min
March 01 Kleptocrat-in-Chief (w/ Alexander Cooley & Daniel Nexon)
NOTE: This episode was recorded before the US/Israel attack on Iran.
Two professors describe the staggering corruption Trump is normalizing and how it is affecting foreign policy. Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon join The Mona Charen Show to discuss their Foreign Affairs piece “The Age of Kleptocracy.”
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1 hr 4 min
February 23 Health in the Time of MAGA (w/ Atul Gawande)
Dr. Atul Gawande reports on what cuts to USAID are doing to the world’s most vulnerable, as well as how that is coming home. Also a look back at Covid and reflections on end of life care.
1 hr 1 min
February 16 The Real Conflict is Between Decent and Indecent (w/ David French)
David French discusses culture wars morphing into hot wars, partisanship, and the idiocy of threatening Greenland.
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52 min
February 09 Why Minneapolis Gives Hope (w/ Peter Wehner)
Mona is joined by the Atlantic’s Peter Wehner to discuss the psychology of MAGA and why defeating them must be the precursor to depolarization.
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58 min

About The Mona Charen Show

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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…