America Retreating from World Leadership
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Megan McArdle: Shutting a freeway in traffic-clogged L.A. gets attention. But is it effective activism? by Rachel Uranga and Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times
Damon Linker: Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO by Laura Kelly, The Hill
Bill Galston: A five-point plan to save Harvard from itself, by Steven Pinker Boston Globe and In GOP Contest, Trump Supporters Stand Out for Dislike of Compromise, Pew Research Center
Mona Charen: How to Fix the Insurrection Act and a PSA: Be careful about legal marijuana in public regarding your pets!
Linda Chavez: André Braugher Dies: Star Of ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ & Other Series And Films Was 61, by Mike Fleming, Jr. Deadline... [Buy the box set, Linda suggests!]
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| 0:29.0 | com pricing shown. Welcome to Beg to |
| 0:39.8 | Beg to Differ, the Bullworks weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil |
| 0:44.2 | conversation across the political spectrum. We range from center left to |
| 0:48.9 | center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor of the Bullwork, and I'm joined by our regulars. |
| 0:56.0 | Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:59.6 | Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter, Notes from the Middle Ground, and Linda Chavez of the Nusganon Center. |
| 1:06.3 | Our special guest this week is Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, this week may be seen by historians, one hopes not, but it may be seen by historians as a turning point when the U.S. made a pivot away from world leadership because the Congress was unsuccessful |
| 1:26.5 | the president was unsuccessful rather in getting Congress to agree to |
| 1:30.5 | funding for Ukraine. Volodemimir Zelensky made a special trip |
| 1:35.2 | to try to lobby the members on behalf of his beleaguered country, |
| 1:41.3 | but it certainly fell on deaf ears with some parts of the MAGA right, for example, |
| 1:46.4 | Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, who said, these are people who would cut Social Security, |
| 1:52.3 | throw our grandparents into poverty. Why? So that one of |
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