The Mona Charen Show

The Mona Charen Show

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.

Episodes

January 5, 2026 68 mins
Trump promised a manufacturing comeback and cheaper prices. Instead, jobs are shrinking, costs are rising, and America’s economic credibility is taking a hit. Catherine Rampell joins Mona to discuss why the factory revival was always a myth, how tariffs backfired, and why chaos, favoritism, and attacks on rule of law are making the U.S. a riskier place to do business.

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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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December 22, 2025 30 secs
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. 

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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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The Economist’s John Prideaux discusses the lavish gifts and other forms of corruption in Trump’s Washington.
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December 1, 2025 73 mins
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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Lawfare’s Ben Wittes discusses Lindsay Halligan’s incompetence and malevolence and the importance of grand juries to our liberties.
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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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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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November 3, 2025 48 mins
The Atlantic’s Idrees Kahloon discusses the worrying learning losses of the past decade and some signs of hope.

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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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Mona Charen sits down with defense expert Kori Schake to unpack Donald Trump’s latest stunt with the military, the danger of turning U.S. troops into political props, and how Congress has let civilian control slip away. They also discuss Trump’s foreign-policy “own goals,” America’s fraying alliances, and why China and Putin are cheering him on.

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Bill Galston joins Mona to discuss his new book about the vulnerabilities of liberal democracies and how to relearn the importance of rhetoric.

Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech: https://a.co/d/9OPWkKP
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October 6, 2025 64 mins
Damon Linker on just how crazy awful things are, but with some optimism for climbing out of the abyss.

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The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait discusses how MAGA is using Kirk's tragic death as a pretext for full-on authoritarian repression of dissent.


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September 22, 2025 56 mins
The Bulwark's Jonathan Cohn discusses the harm RFK has already done, and what he's planning, which may be worse.

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September 15, 2025 53 mins
Holly Berkley Fletcher explains the mindset of white evangelicals from a unique perspective—that of missionary kids. She was one. Her new book sheds light on a key MAGA constituency.





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September 8, 2025 33 mins
Mona welcomes UVA's Brad Wilcox to discuss the latest stats on marriage, what singlehood means for kids, men, and women, and marriage's new alt-Right foes.

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September 1, 2025 56 mins
Third Way's Matt Bennett and Sarah Longwell join Mona to talk about tanking Democratic voter registration numbers, words you should never say, the working class, the donors, and more.

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Was It Something I Said? A memo to All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA from Third Way.
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August 25, 2025 39 mins
FREOPP's Michael Tanner joins Mona to discuss homelessness causes and potential cures.

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