The Mona Charen Show

Trump Used to Fantasize About Killing Suspects. Now He’s Doing It.

Mona Charen talks with Adam Isacson and John Walsh of the Washington Office on Latin America about Operation Southern Spear, the Trump administration’s deadly strikes on

Trump Is Wrecking His Own Agenda—and for What?

Mona Charen is joined by Bill Galston, Linda Chavez, and Damon Linker for a "Beg to Differ" reunion! They discuss the Trump administration’s foreign policy and corruption

Inside 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 describes as the dange

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 midterms, and the De

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. Published in 1894, the novel

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 institutions that once he

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 weaken the foundations of

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, restrict sports/prison

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, and left the United Stat

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 vetting failure, and th

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, discussing her book Maki

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's Iran war—including t

Trump Bombed Iran—Then Gave It Everything It Wanted (w/ Andrew Fox) | Mona Charen Show

Mona Charen welcomes military analyst Andrew Fox for a conversation on Trump’s Iran ceasefire, whether America squandered its leverage against Tehran, the growing influen

Book Club: “If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal” (w/ Mark Hertling)

On the inaugural Bulwark Book Club, Mark Hertling joins Mona Charen to discuss his new book—If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal—a journal he began during the Gu

Trump's Tough-Guy Act Is Finally Falling Apart (w/ Will Saletan)

Mona Charon and Will Saletan on Texas's political earthquake: Paxton's shocking primary win, whether Democrat James Talarico can actually flip the state, the YOLO Republi

Trump's Staggering Corruption Is Finally Catching Up to Him (w/ Jonathan Chait)

Jonathan Chait of The Atlantic joins Mona to discuss the incredible scope and scale of Trump’s corruption—from the $4 billion the Trump family has added to its net worth

Danielle Crittenden on Losing Her Daughter

Mona Charen is joined by her dear friend Danielle Crittenden for a powerful and honest discussion about the journey that led Danielle to write a book titled Dispatches fr

What Can 'A Man for All Seasons' Tell Us About Today?

A Man for All Seasons is one of cinema's great moral arguments—six Oscars, a cast of legends, and a story about conscience under autocracy that feels more relevant than e

Trump's Tariffs Trashed the Economy. Why Won't We Say That? (w/ Matt Bennett)

Mona Charen spoke with Matt Bennett of Third Way for a diagnosis of where the Democratic Party actually stands: a brand stuck at 28% approval, an immigration message that

Trump's War on the Enlightenment (w/ Steven Pinker) | Mona Charen Show

Steven Pinker joins Mona Charen to discuss why the world is improving in ways most people don’t recognize—and why so many still believe everything is falling apart. They