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 for a probing discussion that goes past the day's headlines.
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Episodes
  • Dealmaker: The Greatest Trump Myth

    Dealmaker: The Greatest Trump Myth
    May 5 2025
    The New Yorker's Susan Glasser joins Mona to discuss Trump's big beautiful deals, the cowardice of the press, and more.

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    References:

    • The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker
    • "Letter from Trump’s Washington" (Glasser's New Yorker column)
    • Donald Trump’s first 100-day interview with Time magazine
    • Donald Trump’s interview with The Atlantic magazine
    • Pompeo Declaration (2018)
    • Opinion by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on Abrego Garcia (Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
    • AP’s lawsuit regarding press access and the Gulf of Mexico naming controversy
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • The Case for Class-Based Affirmative Action

    The Case for Class-Based Affirmative Action
    Apr 28 2025
    Mona talks with Richard Kahlenberg about a proposal to make college admissions more fair in a post race preferences world.

    The Mona Charen Show is a weekly, one-on-one discussion that goes in depth on political and cultural topics. New shows drop Mondays. Find this show wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. Add the show to your player of choice, here.

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    📚 References

    Books:

    • Richard Kahlenberg, Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America's Colleges(2024)

    • Derek Bok, The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions(1998) — study on affirmative action outcomes.

    • Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions, edited by Richard Kahlenberg (2010)
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    47 mins
  • MAGA Grievance: A Short History

    MAGA Grievance: A Short History
    Apr 21 2025
    The Atlantic's Peter Wehner offers insights into the transformation of the GOP from the party that passed PEPFAR to the MAGA warriors of today.

    The Mona Charen Show is a weekly, one-on-one discussion that goes in depth on political and cultural topics. New shows drop Mondays. Find this show wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube.

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    REFERENCES:

    • Peter’s recent work at The Atlantic

    • Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

    • The Closing of the American Mindby Allan Bloom

    • The Power of the Powerless and Summer Meditations by Václav Havel

    • The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    • 1984 by George Orwell
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    1 hr and 7 mins

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