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
Will Sommer takes us on a tour of the groypers and other right wing influencers.
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Mona Charen talks with Unite America’s Nick Troiano about the structural problem driving America’s political polarization: the primary system.
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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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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...David French discusses culture wars morphing into hot wars, partisanship, and the idiocy of threatening Greenland.
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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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Protect 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.
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Mona 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.
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Sonny Bunch joins to discuss “It Was Just an Accident” a film from dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi. It raises profound questions about guilt, judgment, and revenge. Also, amazing that it was made at all.
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Films & References Mentioned:
It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi)
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Quico Toro offers an insider’s perspective on his lost homeland and the American raid.
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