
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 helped build it, and what the mi...
9 Aug 43min

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 long-term American prosperity ...
2 Aug 50min

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/prisons/youth surgery), immigration ...
26 Jul 41min

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 States looking weaker.Get 15% off ...
19 Jul 1h 4min

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 the death of shame—plus Trump's ...
9 Jul 56min

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 Making the Presidency: John Adams ...
5 Jul 1h 1min

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 the case that the U.S. is now p...
28 Jun 48min



















