The Mona Charen Show
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 for a probing discussion that goes past the day's headlines.
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Dec 29, 2025 • 52min
MAGA Intellectuals Under the Microscope
Laura K. Field discusses her book, Furious Minds, which dissects the thought of MAGA intellectuals (yes, there are some). Anti-enlightenment, theocratic, racist, misogynistic and yet, claiming to be for the general good.
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Dec 22, 2025 • 30sec
A Holiday Greeting from Mona
While there won’t be an episode of the Mona Charen Show this week, Mona sends along this holiday greeting. She will return next Monday, December 29.
Dec 15, 2025 • 57min
Forget ‘Double Tap.’ The First Strike Was a Crime (w/ Rosa Brooks)
Georgetown professor Rosa Brooks discusses the legality (or the lack) of Trump’s drug boat attacks as well as the bonkers National Security Strategy document.
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Dec 8, 2025 • 51min
Grift, Graft, and Groveling: Life in Trump 2.0 (w/ John Prideaux)
The Economist’s John Prideaux discusses the lavish gifts and other forms of corruption in Trump’s Washington.
Dec 1, 2025 • 1h 14min
Trump Keeps Overreaching—And Losing
Mona Charen and Will Saletan discuss the growing resistance to Trump’s agenda—grand juries rejecting his charges, the DOJ stumbling, senators warning troops against illegal orders, and his tariffs and deportations driving prices even higher.
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Nov 21, 2025 • 55min
Lindsey Halligan is Malevolence Meets Total Incompetence (w/ Ben Wittes)
Lawfare’s Ben Wittes discusses Lindsay Halligan’s incompetence and malevolence and the importance of grand juries to our liberties.
Nov 17, 2025 • 51min
The Internet's Attack on Reality (w/ Francis Fukuyama)
Francis Fukuyama discusses his theory that the internet, and not economic distress, the Democratic party’s problems, or other things have given rise to populism.
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Nov 10, 2025 • 56min
The New McCarthyism Comes from the Top (w/ Nico Perrino)
This week on the Mona Charen Show, Mona is joined by Nico Perrino, Executive Vice President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), for a crucial conversation about the unprecedented assault on the First Amendment under the Trump 2.0 administration.
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Nov 3, 2025 • 49min
Is American Education Getting Dumber?
The Atlantic’s Idrees Kahloon discusses the worrying learning losses of the past decade and some signs of hope.
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Oct 27, 2025 • 34min
The Emperor’s Mood Swings Decide Everything (w/ Edward Luce) | The Mona Charen Show
Mona Charen and Financial Times columnist Ed Luce discuss how Trump’s second term has gone from chaos to control — from a fake war in Venezuela to a culture of fear in Washington. They talk about the money, the mobs, the East Wing demolition, and how power in America is now moving at “the speed of light.”
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