The Mona Charen Show

Jonathan Rauch discusses his new book The Constitution of Knowledge and joins for a discussion of the threat of crime to Democrats' political health. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Jonathan Rauch, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brink Lindsey discusses his essay on the importance of moderation. The group also addresses the January 6 commission and the Gaza conflict. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Brink Lindsey, Linda Chavez, and Sarah Longwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A.B. Stoddard returns to talk about hope for reducing our political dysfunction. Group also addresses the birth dearth and Liz Cheney's fate. Special Guests: A.B. Stoddard, Bill Galston, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David French helps the panel diagnose the GOP's sickness. The group also talks about voter ID and the Biden daycare plan. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, David French, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

E.J. Dionne helps the panel unpack Biden's first 100 days, plus, racial and class messaging. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eugene Volokh (The Volokh Conspiracy) joins to discuss the anti-riot laws in several states, whether libel law should be upended, and the Chauvin verdict. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Eugene Volokh, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AEI’s Norm Ornstein joins to discuss police violence, court packing, and Afghanistan. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Norman J. Ornstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week’s Beg to Differ, Sarah Longwell sits in for Mona Charen, and discusses with the panel the future of the filibuster, GOP fundraising tactics and their new embrace of boycott culture, H.R. 1 and election law, and China and the Olympics. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Sarah Longwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bret Stephens joins to consider the latest multi-trillion dollar spending bill, the GOP workers' party strategy, and the decline in church membership. Special Guests: Bret Stephens, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

George F. Will joins to discuss lessons of the pandemic, whether Biden is creating a new New Deal, and how to handle China. Special Guests: Damon Linker, George F. Will, Linda Chavez, and Sarah Longwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Niskanen Center's Samuel Hammond joins to discuss improving Biden's child allowance and border policies. Plus: eliminate the filibuster? Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Samuel Hammond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AEI's Desmond Lachman analyzes the inflation risk in our gargantuan spending and loose money policies. The panel then considers the border crisis and the GOP's outreach to the working class. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Desmond Lachman, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AEI’s Kori Schake joins to discuss Biden’s Iran policy, non-white voters’ move right, and whether HR1 can solve the Democratic party’s geography problem. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Kori Schake, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget offers her insights. The group also discusses prospects for a Jan 6 commission, and Europe's response to Biden. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Maya MacGuineas . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Slate's Will Saletan returns to consider the McConnell/Trump GOP, Texas's woes, and Limbaugh's legacy. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Will Saletan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jay Nordlinger joins to discuss the impeachment trial, the Romney plan for families, and the firing of Don McNeill from the NYTimes. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Jay Nordlinger, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Nichols joins to consider the state of governance and GOP self-policing. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Linda Chavez, and Tom Nichols. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anne Applebaum joins to discuss options for reconciliation. Also, brave Navalny and cowardly Republicans. Special Guests: Anne Applebaum, Bill Galston, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

EPPC's Peter Wehner joins this week to review the inauguration and look forward to the first priorities of the Biden administration. Also impeachment 2.0. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Peter Wehner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan V. Last and Catherine Rampell join the group to discuss impeachment 2.0, deplatforming (pro and con), and prospects for Biden. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Catherine Rampell, Damon Linker, and Jonathan V. Last. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eric Edelman joins to discuss the Trump mob’s storming of the Capitol. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Eric Edelman, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A.B. Stoddard joins the group on New Year's Eve to discuss the lows (many) and highs (there were some) of 2020. Special Guests: A.B. Stoddard, Bill Galston, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bulwark founder Sarah Longwell joins the group to discuss Trump’s sabotage of the relief bill, reforms to Trump-proof the presidency, and recommendations for holiday viewing/listening. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Sarah Longwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charles Lane joins this week to discuss how Biden is doing. Is GOP terminally Trumpy? A look at the Georgia run-off. Plus, is huge gov’t debt actually ok? Special Guests: Bill Galston, Charles Lane, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Author and foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten joins the group to discuss conspiracy thinking at home and abroad, the Biden cabinet so far, and Stop the Steal. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Linda Chavez, and Michael J. Totten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill Kristol joins B2D to discuss the normal (!) congressional Covid compromise, Biden’s cabinet so far, and the insanity on the Trump right. Special Guests: Bill Kristol, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jon Fasman of The Economist joins all of the regulars to discuss what we know and what we don’t about the election. Deep breaths. Special Guests: Bill Galston, Damon Linker, Jon Fasman, and Linda Chavez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charlie Sykes and Mona Charen introduce Beg to Differ, a new podcast from The Bulwark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices