Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

Mona Charen hosts a roundtable with Linda Chavez, Bill Galston, and Damon Linker discussing the news of the week.

About the show

Beg to Differ is a weekly roundtable podcast brought to you by TheBulwark.com. Host Mona Charen is joined by Linda Chavez of the Niskanen Center, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution, and Damon Linker of The Week to discuss the news of the week in a respectful, rational forum.

Episodes

  • How Do We Know What's True?

    May 28th, 2021  |  57 mins 53 secs
    book, constitution of knowledge, crime, democrats, facts, jonathan rauch, republicans

    Jonathan Rauch discusses his new book The Constitution of Knowledge and joins for a discussion of the threat of crime to Democrats' political health.

  • Three Cheers for Moderation

    May 21st, 2021  |  1 hr 6 mins
    compromise, congress, gaza, insurrection commission, israel, january 6, moderation, palestine

    Brink Lindsey discusses his essay on the importance of moderation. The group also addresses the January 6 commission and the Gaza conflict.

  • Cheney Out; Births Down; Ranked Choice Voting In?

    May 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins
    birth rates, elise stefanik, house gop, liz cheney, political dysfunction

    A.B. Stoddard returns to talk about hope for reducing our political dysfunction. Group also addresses the birth dearth and Liz Cheney's fate.

  • Cheney: Too Honest for the GOP

    May 7th, 2021  |  1 hr 10 mins
    biden, education, free daycare, gop, liz cheney, republican party, voter id

    David French helps the panel diagnose the GOP's sickness. The group also talks about voter ID and the Biden daycare plan.

  • FDR Redux?

    April 30th, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins
    american society, class, first 100 days, president biden, race, speech, spending

    E.J. Dionne helps the panel unpack Biden's first 100 days, plus, racial and class messaging.

  • Reading the Riot Act

    April 23rd, 2021  |  1 hr 8 mins
    anti-riot laws, democrats, derek chauvin, george floyd, gop, libel, minnesota, riots, slander

    Eugene Volokh (The Volokh Conspiracy) joins to discuss the anti-riot laws in several states, whether libel law should be upended, and the Chauvin verdict.

  • Don’t Pack the Court

    April 16th, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins
    afghanistan, court packing, police violence, president biden, scotus

    AEI’s Norm Ornstein joins to discuss police violence, court packing, and Afghanistan.

  • Manchin's Ultimatum

    April 9th, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins
    boycott culture, china, election law, filibuster, fundraising, georgia, gop, h.r. 1, human rights, joe manchin, marjorie taylor greene, mlb, olympics, politics, sb 202, senate

    On this week’s Beg to Differ, Sarah Longwell sits in for Mona Charen, and discusses with the panel the future of the filibuster, GOP fundraising tactics and their new embrace of boycott culture, H.R. 1 and election law, and China and the Olympics.

  • Will Biden Bucks Defeat Culture Wars?

    April 2nd, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins
    church membership, gop, infrastructure, president biden, spending, working class

    Bret Stephens joins to consider the latest multi-trillion dollar spending bill, the GOP workers' party strategy, and the decline in church membership.

  • Report Card

    March 26th, 2021  |  1 hr 37 secs
    china, economics, new deal, pandemic, president biden

    George F. Will joins to discuss lessons of the pandemic, whether Biden is creating a new New Deal, and how to handle China.

  • Build Biden Better

    March 19th, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins
    border policies, child allowance, covid-19, filibuster, immigration, joe biden, stimulus, taxes

    The Niskanen Center's Samuel Hammond joins to discuss improving Biden's child allowance and border policies. Plus: eliminate the filibuster?

  • Is There a Trapdoor in the Recovery Plan?

    March 12th, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins
    border, budget, covid-19, debt, deficit, elections, immigration, inflation, politics, recovery plan, spending, working class

    AEI's Desmond Lachman analyzes the inflation risk in our gargantuan spending and loose money policies. The panel then considers the border crisis and the GOP's outreach to the working class.