Damon Linker
Special guest
Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, a former contributing editor at The New Republic, and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.
Damon Linker has been a guest on 108 episodes.
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RIP GOP?
October 30th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
2020, donald trump, electoral college, filibuster, gop
George F. Will and Jonathan V. Last join to discuss the state of the parties, the likely outcome, and whether the filibuster and Electoral College should stay.
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Closing Argument? What Closing Argument?
October 23rd, 2020 | 59 mins 7 secs
2020 election, border, child separation, donald trump, immigration, joe biden
Election guru Josh Kraushaar joins B2D to discuss the ragged end game, what to watch on Nov. 3, and the disgrace of orphaned children at the border.
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Roid Rage
October 9th, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
covid, donald trump, gop, politics, vp debate
David Frum returns to B2D. He and the panel discuss the VP debate, the president’s mental state, abuse of power, and the future of the political parties.
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Debating a Drunk Gorilla
October 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 23 mins
david french, debate, divided we fall, president trump, taxes, vice president biden
David French joins to discuss his book Divided We Fall as well as the debased debate, and the president’s taxes.
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Peaceful Transition?
September 25th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
2020 elections, durham report, obstruction, pardon power, power politics, rbg, scotus, supreme court
Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith discusses his new book, After Trump. The group then tackles the Supreme Court and Trump’s threat to election integrity.
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If Trump Loses, Should We Lock Him Up?
September 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
crimes, criminal justice, donald trump, electoral college, middle east, suburbs
Politico’s Tim Alberta joins the BTD panel to talk about changing suburbs, the Middle East breakthrough, Electoral College woes, and perp walking ex-presidents.
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Lordy, There Are Tapes
September 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
2020, article 2, bill barr, bob woodward, law, lawsuits, military, morality, persuasion, saudi arabia, the atlantic, trump, yascha mounk
On this week's Bulwark Beg to Differ with Mona Charen, Yascha Mounk joins the usual cast to discuss Trump and the military, the Woodward tapes, and Attorney General Barr setting a bad new precedent.
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Escape from Partisanship
September 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
covid-19, decency, donald trump, joe biden, kenosha, partisanship
On this week's Beg to Differ with Mona Charen, Charlie Sykes joins the usual cast to discuss Biden in Kenosha, Trump and decency, the politicization of COVID-19, and an escape from partisanship.
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No Platform. Trump All The Way Down
August 28th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
conventions, dnc, ideas, kenosha, political platforms, politics, rnc
On this week's Bulwark Beg to Differ with Mona Charen, Bill Galston, Linda Chavez, and Damon Linker discuss the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the RNC and DNC conventions, and what happens when parties abandon ideas.
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Democrats unite. Republicans? Well
August 21st, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
convention, dnc, gop, russia, senate intelligence
On this week's Bulwark Beg to Differ Podcast with Mona Charen, Peter Wehner of the NY Times joins the group to consider the DNC (pre-Biden speech), what the Senate Intel report reveals, and the state of the GOP.
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Swan Song
August 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 9 mins
axios, beirut, dhs, donald trump, intelligence, jonathan swan, journalism, portland, protests
On this week’s Beg to Differ with Mona Charen, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes describes his disturbing experience with DHS. The group also discusses the Swan/Trump interview and the lessons of Beirut.
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Postpone the Election Edition
July 31st, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
2020, big tech, congress, covid-19, delaying the election, donald trump, herman cain, joe biden, louie gohmert, mail in voting, veepstakes
On this week's Beg to Differ, A.B. Stoddard joins the usual crew to discuss mail-in voting in the 2020 election, Trump floating delaying it, Louie Gohmert, Herman Cain, and COVID-19, and a discussion about the Veepstakes and Congress skewering Big Tech.