Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInside Trump’s National Security Dumpster Fire (w/ Julie Curlee)
Mona Charen speaks with former CIA officer Julie Curlee about her two decades in intelligence, her removal from the Trump White House, and what she …
12 hours ago
Trump’s Iran War Blew Up His “America First” Promise (w/ Will Saletan) | Mona Charen Show
Mona Charen and Will Saletan discuss the fallout from Trump’s Iran war, his attacks on America’s allies, growing trouble for Republicans ahead of the…
1 week ago
Bulwark Book Club: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’—Was Twain Ahead of His Time? (w/ Mona Charen & Bill Kristol)
Mona Charen is joined by Bill Kristol to discuss Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson for the August edition of The Bulwark Book Club with viewers. Publis…
2 weeks ago
America Didn’t Lower the Bar for Character. We Buried It.
Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) joins Mona Charen for a conversation about why character still matters in leadership, how America lost many of the ins…
3 weeks ago
Trump is Making America Third World (w/ Idrees Kahloon)
Mona Charen speaks with The Atlantic’s Idrees Kahloon about how Trump’s immigration, university, trade, fiscal, and foreign-policy agenda could weak…
4 weeks ago
How Democrats Can Win Big (w/ Thomas Edsall)
Thomas Edsall tells Mona Charen Democrats can recover from Trump's bad ratings by moderating on three fronts: transgender policy (affirm two sexes, …
1 month ago
How Badly Has Trump Botched the Iran War? (w/ Eric Edelman)
Mona Charen and Eric Edelman examine how Trump stumbled into the Iran war without a clear plan, alienated allies, strengthened Tehran's position, an…
1 month, 1 week ago
Trump, Platner, and the Mistake America Keeps Making (w/ Will Saletan)
Democrats swore they'd never do what Republicans did with Trump. Then came Graham Platner. Mona Charen and Will Saletan on the fake oysterman, the v…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A Belated Appreciation of John Adams
Mona Charen is joined by historian Lindsay Chervinsky—executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library—for the Bulwark Book Club, di…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
This Reporter Calls Trump—And He Answers! (w/ Ed Luce)
Mona Charen and FT columnist Ed Luce dig into Giorgia Meloni's public dressing down of Trump, the UK's political chaos, and the fallout from Trump'…
2 months ago