Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

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Beg to Differ is a weekly roundtable podcast brought to you by http://TheBulwark.com. Host Mona Charen is joined by Linda Chavez of the Niskanen Center, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution, and Damon Linker, who writes "Notes from the Middleground," to discuss the news of the week in a respectful, rational forum.

Episode Date
The Final Beg to Differ
Dec 20, 2024
Trump's Most Dangerous Nominee
Dec 13, 2024
Is the Press Preemptively Caving to Trump?
Dec 06, 2024
Humiliation Theater
Nov 22, 2024
As Bad As We Thought
Nov 15, 2024
Kleptocracy Cometh
Nov 08, 2024
Who Are You Calling Garbage?
Nov 01, 2024
Why One Never Trumper Can't Endorse Kamala Harris
Oct 25, 2024
An Underrated Threat: The Trump Corruption
Oct 18, 2024
What Would a Second Trump Term Mean for US Leadership?
Oct 11, 2024
Vance Impersonates a Decent Guy
Oct 03, 2024
The Gender Chasm
Sep 27, 2024
Does Trump's Tough Guy Persona Really Work in World Affairs?
Sep 20, 2024
The MAGA Bubble Burst
Sep 13, 2024
Tucker Carlson: Anchor on Trump/Vance?
Sep 06, 2024
The New Kamala Harris
Aug 29, 2024
How Far Can the Vibes Carry Kamala?
Aug 23, 2024
"Rational Exuberance"
Aug 16, 2024
With Walz, Harris Can Pivot to the Center
Aug 09, 2024
Did Trump Plan It?
Aug 02, 2024
We Have Lift-Off
Jul 26, 2024
The Clock is Ticking
Jul 18, 2024
An Open Convention Could be Great for Democracy
Jul 12, 2024
Courting Disaster
Jul 04, 2024
The Most Consequential Failure of Recent Times
Jun 29, 2024
Attack of the Phones
Jun 21, 2024
The 'Absurdly Normal' President
Jun 14, 2024
The 'Rally Round the Criminal' Effect
Jun 07, 2024
Wanted: A Biden Campaign
May 30, 2024
What if What the Electorate Knows is Flat Wrong?
May 24, 2024
Will Debates Reset the Race?
May 17, 2024
Does This Make Me Look Weak?
May 10, 2024
The Revolution Will Not Be Catered
May 03, 2024
"Ukraine is anti-Christian" and other Russian Lies
Apr 26, 2024
Will Dysfunctional House GOP Do the Right Thing?
Apr 19, 2024
The Tabloidization of America
Apr 12, 2024
Will Double Haters Park Their Votes on RFK, Jr?
Apr 05, 2024
Sacrilege for Sale
Mar 29, 2024
Trump is Hard Up for Cash
Mar 22, 2024
Trump's Georgia Acts Were Even Worse Than You Thought
Mar 15, 2024
The Dreaded General Election Arrives
Mar 08, 2024
The Threat of Christian Supremacism
Mar 01, 2024
Putin's GOP Enablers
Feb 23, 2024
Should Democrats Dump Biden?
Feb 16, 2024
Betraying Ukraine, Episode 3
Feb 09, 2024
Do People Care That Trump's a Sociopath?
Feb 02, 2024
Can Haley Make a Difference?
Jan 26, 2024
Intimidation and the GOP
Jan 19, 2024
The Evangelical Crack-Up
Jan 12, 2024
"Harvard Shmarvard"
Jan 05, 2024
"Will Haley's Stumble Matter?"
Dec 29, 2023
Did Colorado's Supreme Court Do the Right Thing?
Dec 22, 2023
America Retreating from World Leadership
Dec 15, 2023
"Dictator on Day One"
Dec 08, 2023
The Immigration Threat to Biden's Reelection
Dec 01, 2023
"Terrible Choices for Israel"
Nov 24, 2023
Can Biden Turn This Around?
Nov 17, 2023
Scary Polls and Scary Pols
Nov 10, 2023
American World Leadership in Crisis
Nov 03, 2023
Biden's No-Win Problem
Oct 27, 2023
Hamas's Propaganda Triumph
Oct 20, 2023
An Orgy of Savagery
Oct 13, 2023
Nihilists in the Driver's Seat
Oct 06, 2023
"Thank You for Speaking While I'm Interrupting."
Sep 29, 2023
No Justice, No Jeeps
Sep 22, 2023
No Party for Honest Men
Sep 15, 2023
Must Biden Go? Pro and Con
Sep 08, 2023
Look Who's Claiming to Care about Norms Now
Sep 01, 2023
Springtime for Demagogues
Aug 25, 2023
Only the Heroes Have Paid a Price . . . Until Now
Aug 18, 2023
First Debate in Which Everyone Is Afraid to Tell the Truth
Aug 11, 2023
The Trump Defenses That Won't Hunt
Aug 04, 2023
DeSantis Campaign Promises "Leaner and Meaner." Is Meaner Even Possible?
Jul 28, 2023
Contemplating a Trump Administration 2.0
Jul 21, 2023
Is Optimism Warranted?
Jul 14, 2023
A Class Full of Frenchmen?
Jul 07, 2023
A Week Where Decades Happen
Jun 30, 2023
The View from Trumpland
Jun 23, 2023
Republicans Get a Little Punchy
Jun 16, 2023
An Incredibly Weak Field
Jun 09, 2023
Green Shoots of a Responsible Right?
Jun 02, 2023
DeSantis Is No Trump Slayer
May 26, 2023
Durham Got Bupkis
May 19, 2023
Demonic Charisma
May 12, 2023
Trump Biden Redux?
May 05, 2023
Tucker's Unique Malevolence
Apr 28, 2023
DeSantis Fights Off a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Apr 21, 2023
Why a Third Party Is a Threat
Apr 14, 2023
Are There Any Grown-Ups in Government?
Mar 31, 2023
Is Accountability Dead?
Mar 24, 2023
Bragging Rights
Mar 17, 2023
The Pro-Storming-the-Capitol Party
Mar 10, 2023
Chicago's Message
Mar 03, 2023
The North Koreans Do a More Nuanced Show
Feb 24, 2023
Is Everyone Underestimating Nikki Haley?
Feb 17, 2023
State of Biden Is . . . Strong? But Kamala Harris, Not So Much
Feb 10, 2023
What if DeSantis Can't Hack It?
Feb 03, 2023
Does NATO Want Ukraine to Win the War?
Jan 27, 2023
The Marjorie Taylor Greene Majority
Jan 20, 2023
Classified Shmasified
Jan 13, 2023
McCarthy Sells His Soul for Nothing
Jan 06, 2023
How to Disempower the Extremists
Dec 23, 2022
Bad Science; Good Science
Dec 16, 2022
Bibi is Back
Dec 09, 2022
Boy Troubles
Dec 02, 2022
Righting the Ship
Nov 18, 2022
The Biggest Loser
Nov 10, 2022
Moral Illness
Nov 04, 2022
It's the Center That Is Strong and Principled
Oct 28, 2022
The Weakness of Strongmen
Oct 21, 2022
Is a Utah Senate Upset in the Cards? (with Evan McMullin)
Oct 14, 2022
Courting Trouble? (with Prof. Steve Vladeck)
Oct 07, 2022
Our Unchristian Churches (with Pete Wehner)
Sep 30, 2022
Trump and Putin Both Had a Bad Week (with Benjamin Wittes)
Sep 23, 2022
Imagining Victory (with Noah Smith)
Sep 16, 2022
Reading Midterm Tea Leaves (with Josh Barro)
Sep 09, 2022
He Is a Sucking Black Hole of Disaster (with Megan McArdle)
Sep 02, 2022
How to Defeat Putin . . . and Trump (with Eric Edelman)
Aug 26, 2022
I'm Sorry, That's Classified
Aug 19, 2022
GOP vs. Rule of Law (with Ted Nordhaus)
Aug 12, 2022
Kansas Shocker (with A.B. Stoddard)
Aug 05, 2022
Indict Them All? (with Nicholas Grossman)
Jul 29, 2022
Did the January 6 Committee Make a Difference? (with Tom Nichols)
Jul 22, 2022
A Patchwork Nation on Abortion (with Frances Kissling)
Jul 15, 2022
Can Democrats do Politics? (with Ruy Teixeira)
Jul 08, 2022
The End of Roe and Trump's Pathology (with Peter Wehner & Ted Johnson)
Jul 01, 2022
“Wintry realism.” (with David Frum)
Jun 24, 2022
Republicans are Dangerous; Democrats are Ineffectual (with Charlie Sykes)
Jun 17, 2022
Is Biden Too Old for a Second Term? (with Matt Bennett)
Jun 10, 2022
Is Gun Control Futile? (with David French)
Jun 03, 2022
Drowning in Guns under Minority Rule (with A.B. Stoddard)
May 27, 2022
The Challenge of Diversity (with Yascha Mounk)
May 20, 2022
Voting Rights and Abortion Rights (with Ben Ginsberg)
May 13, 2022
Abortion and Climate. Can We Get More Contentious? (with Robert Pindyck)
May 06, 2022
A Macron Moment in the US? (with guest host Josh Barro)
Apr 29, 2022
Jared vs. Hunter
Apr 22, 2022
The Inflation Monster (with Noah Smith)
Apr 15, 2022
Putin's American Friends (with Eric Edelman)
Apr 08, 2022
Lock Him Up?
Apr 01, 2022
Monsters and Jackasses
Mar 25, 2022
Ukraine and the West Surprise Putin . . . and Ourselves
Mar 18, 2022
Ukrainians Dodge Missiles. Can We Dodge Involvement? Should We?
Mar 11, 2022
A Week Where Decades Happened (with Kori Schake)
Mar 04, 2022
Hinge Moment of History
Feb 25, 2022
San Francisco Sends Democrats a Message
Feb 18, 2022
Open Everything?
Feb 11, 2022
A Canceling We Will Go
Feb 04, 2022
Putin Wants to Turn Back the Clock
Jan 28, 2022
Do's and Don'ts of Democracy Protection
Jan 21, 2022
Biden's Nadir Week?
Jan 14, 2022
The Death of the Conservative Party
Jan 07, 2022
Were the Clintonites Right after All?
Dec 24, 2021
Was January 6 a Coup Attempt?
Dec 17, 2021
Resentful Animosities
Dec 10, 2021
If Roe Goes
Dec 03, 2021
How Scary Is Inflation?
Nov 19, 2021
The DeSantis Temptation
Nov 12, 2021
A Whiff of Maoism
Oct 29, 2021
The Democrats’ Sinking Poll Numbers
Oct 22, 2021
Why You Can't Bracket Trump
Oct 15, 2021
“I Resent Being Called Cheerful."
Oct 08, 2021
Democrats are Divided. Republicans are United -- as a cult. How worried should we be?
Oct 01, 2021
Republicans are Dangerous. Can the Democrats Succeed?
Sep 24, 2021
Insurrectionist Republicans, reflections on a sad anniversary, and what if Roe is reversed
Sep 10, 2021
Can We Avoid Another January 6?
Sep 03, 2021
Afghanistan: Not a mistake?
Aug 26, 2021
Is the Country Calming Down?
Aug 13, 2021
Whoa, those Cuomo woes.
Aug 06, 2021
Back to January 6
Jul 30, 2021
Talking About Race Respectfully
Jul 23, 2021
How Bad Was CPAC?
Jul 16, 2021
Will This Reform Save Our Democracy?
Jul 09, 2021
Lock Him Up?
Jul 02, 2021
Why Can't Democrats Take Yes for an Answer?
Jun 25, 2021
Putin's MAGA Talking Points
Jun 18, 2021
Vaccinate the World
Jun 11, 2021
Labs, Cults, and Votes
Jun 04, 2021
How Do We Know What's True?
May 28, 2021
Three Cheers for Moderation
May 21, 2021
Cheney Out; Births Down; Ranked Choice Voting In?
May 14, 2021
Cheney: Too Honest for the GOP
May 07, 2021
FDR Redux?
Apr 30, 2021
Reading the Riot Act
Apr 23, 2021
Don’t Pack the Court
Apr 16, 2021
Manchin's Ultimatum
Apr 09, 2021
Will Biden Bucks Defeat Culture Wars?
Apr 02, 2021
Report Card
Mar 26, 2021
Build Biden Better
Mar 19, 2021
Is There a Trapdoor in the Recovery Plan?
Mar 12, 2021
2020 Warnings for Democrats
Mar 05, 2021
Is the Stimulus a Clunker?
Feb 26, 2021
Powerless Texas
Feb 19, 2021
Convict Him
Feb 12, 2021
Is Compromise Alive?
Feb 05, 2021
Can We Live Together in Peace?
Jan 29, 2021
Unity?
Jan 22, 2021
The Biggest Lie
Jan 14, 2021
Crisis
Jan 08, 2021
Farewell to All That
Jan 01, 2021
Are Things Normal Yet? No.
Dec 24, 2020
GOP Crack-Up
Dec 18, 2020
Beg to Agree
Dec 11, 2020
Can Normal Elbow Out Crazy?
Dec 04, 2020
Nearly There
Nov 06, 2020
Welcome to Beg to Differ!
Oct 02, 2019