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The Mona Charen Show

The Mona Charen Show

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 After a great five year run on Beg to Differ, Mona Charen brings you a new show dedicated to deepening your understanding of complex issues and trends facing society. Each week she'll engage an expert for a probing discussion that goes past the day's headlines.Bulwark Media Political Science Politics & Government
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  • ICE is Coming for All of Our Rights

    ICE is Coming for All of Our Rights
    Jul 7 2025
    CATO's David Bier explains who ICE has scooped up—93 percent are not criminals—and what's coming next. Bier describes aggressive, anonymous arrest tactics and overcrowded detention centers with inhumane conditions, and warns of efforts to undermine birthright citizenship and due process.

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    References:65% of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93% No Violent Convictions, by David Bier at CATO.
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    49 mins
  • Why Nothing Works and What to Do About It

    Why Nothing Works and What to Do About It
    Jun 30 2025
    Author Marc Dunkelman discusses his new book Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back.Dunkelman contrasts past centralized efficiency with today’s slow, decentralized system full of procedural roadblocks. They close with a hopeful look at reform efforts, like Josh Shapiro’s in Pennsylvania, as one potential model.
    The Mona Charen Show is a weekly, one-on-one discussion that goes in depth on political and cultural topics. New shows drop Mondays. Find this show wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. Add the show to your player of choice, here.

    This episode of The Mona Charen Show is sponsored by Putting Families First.
    They won’t forget that certain legislators betrayed families by cutting Medicaid and public school funding. Putting Families First is trying to put a stop cuts to Medicaid and public education, and are working to elect leaders who agree. Learn what’s at stake at PutFamilies1st.org.
    References:

    • Why Nothing Works– by Marc Dunkelman

    • Stuck– by Yoni Appelbaum

    • Abundance– by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

    • The Power Broker– by Robert Caro

    • The Power Elite– by C. Wright Mills

    • The House of Truth – by Brad Snyder
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    58 mins
  • A Novel About the Spanish Inquisition

    A Novel About the Spanish Inquisition
    Jun 23 2025
    Linda Chavez joined Mona Charen to discuss her debut novel The Silver Candlesticks, inspired by a personal revelation during an appearance on Finding Your Roots that her ancestors were secret Jews persecuted during the Spanish Inquisition. The novel explores themes of religious identity, repression, and survival, drawing on her family's history in Spain and the New World, as well as her own experience converting to Judaism. Their conversation also delved into parallels between historical persecution and contemporary immigration policies, warning against rising authoritarianism in the U.S.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
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