A 250-Foot Monument to Trump's Ego (w/ Philip Kennicott)
Washington Post architecture critic Philip Kennicott discusses Trump’s physical desecration of Washington DC.Read more from Philip Kennicott: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/04/07/artemis-mo...
13 Apr 52min
Confronting Anti-Semitism, Left and Right (w/ David Frum)
David Frum analyzes the roots of both left and right-wing anti-Semitism and what it means for a liberal democracy.Go to https://Quince.com/MONA for free shipping and 365-day returns. Now available in ...
6 Apr 1h
RFK's War on Vaccines Is a Political Loser
Jonathan Cohn joins Mona to discuss the growing public health crisis under RFK Jr.’s leadership at HHS. From vaccine rollbacks to misinformation about autism and common medications, they walk through ...
30 Mars 58min
DOGE Dumbed Down the Nation (w/ Jessica Riedl)
Brookings scholar Jessica Riedl analyzes the DOGE debacle and the failure of Americans to make grown up choices about spending and taxes.
23 Mars 43min
Candace Owens Is Tearing MAGA Apart (w/ Will Sommer)
Will Sommer takes us on a tour of the groypers and other right wing influencers.For a limited time, try OneSkin with 15% off using code MONA at https://oneskin.co/MONA.
16 Mars 46min
Why Primaries Reward The Most Extreme Candidates (w/ Nick Troiano)
Mona Charen talks with Unite America’s Nick Troiano about the structural problem driving America’s political polarization: the primary system.
9 Mars 41min
Tom Nichols: There Are 500 Ways This War Goes Wrong
In this emergency episode of The Mona Charen Show, Tom Nichols lays out the tremendous risks Trump has taken with Iran war.Go to https://Quince.com/MONA for free shipping and 365-day returns. That's a...
3 Mars 54min
Kleptocrat-in-Chief (w/ Alexander Cooley & Daniel Nexon)
NOTE: This episode was recorded before the US/Israel attack on Iran.Two professors describe the staggering corruption Trump is normalizing and how it is affecting foreign policy. Alexander Cooley and ...
1 Mars 1h 3min
