Podcast
The Mona Charen Show
Hosted by The Bulwark · EN
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 for a probing discussion that goes past the day's headlines.
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Candace Owens Is Tearing MAGA Apart (w/ Will Sommer)
Mar 1600:46:11Tap to summarizeWill Sommer takes us on a tour of the groypers and other right wing influencers.For a limited time, try OneSkin with 15% off using code MONA at https://oneskin.co/MONA.
Transcribe →Why Primaries Reward The Most Extreme Candidates (w/ Nick Troiano)
Mar 900:41:47Tap to summarizeMona Charen talks with Unite America’s Nick Troiano about the structural problem driving America’s political polarization: the primary system.
Transcribe →Tom Nichols: There Are 500 Ways This War Goes Wrong
Mar 300:54:11Tap to summarizeIn this emergency episode of The Mona Charen Show, Tom Nichols lays out the tremendous risks Trump has taken with Iran war.Go to https://Quince.com/MONA for free shipping and 365-day returns. That's a full year to wear it and love it. And you will.
Transcribe →Kleptocrat-in-Chief (w/ Alexander Cooley & Daniel Nexon)
Mar 101:03:14Tap to summarizeNOTE: 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.” Go to https://Quince.com/MONA for free shipping and 365-day returns. That's a full year to wear it and love it. And you will.
Transcribe →Health in the Time of MAGA (w/ Atul Gawande)
Feb 2301:00:55Tap to summarizeDr. 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.
Transcribe →The Real Conflict is Between Decent and Indecent (w/ David French)
Feb 1600:51:52Tap to summarizeDavid French discusses culture wars morphing into hot wars, partisanship, and the idiocy of threatening Greenland.Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MONACHAREN at https://www.oneskin.co/MONACHAREN #oneskinpod
Transcribe →Why Minneapolis Gives Hope (w/ Peter Wehner)
Feb 900:57:04Tap to summarizeMona is joined by the Atlantic’s Peter Wehner to discuss the psychology of MAGA and why defeating them must be the precursor to depolarization.Wildgrain is offering $30 off your first box - PLUS free Croissantsfor life - when you go to https://Wildgrain.com/MONA to start your subscription today.
Transcribe →How Can I Save Democracy? (w/ Ian Bassin)
Feb 200:53:22Tap to summarizeProtect Democracy founder Ian Bassin talks about victories and setbacks in the effort to thwart authoritarianism America-style, and what each person can do to preserve free and fair elections going forward.Go to https://Quince.com/MONA for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too.
Transcribe →Is a Blue Wave Coming in November? (w/ Dave Wasserman)
Jan 3000:55:38Tap to summarizeDave Wasserman joins Mona to discuss what’s changed and what hasn’t since 2018, including electoral map, redistricting, public discontent, and likely turnout.
Transcribe →Loneliness Is Reshaping America (w/ David Brooks)
Jan 2600:41:54Tap to summarizeMona speaks with David Brooks (author, contributor to PBS NewsHour and opinion columnist for The New York Times) about why so many Americans feel unseen, how loneliness and moral drift are reshaping society, and what we lose when human connection is replaced by screens, algorithms, and artificial companionship.How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652822/how-to-know-a-person-by-david-brooks/
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