"Dictator on Day One"
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Mona Charen: What Is Happening at the Columbia School of Social Work? by Pamela Paul
Damon Linker: A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. and The Trump dictatorship: How to stop it, both by Robert Kagan
Bill Galston: The troubling testimony of Ivy League professors before the House on anti-semitism on campus.
Linda Chavez: Why Dostoevsky Loved Humanity and Hated the Jews by Gary Saul Morson
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| 0:33.0 | Welcome to Begg to Differ, |
| 0:37.0 | the Bullworks Weekly. Welcome to Beg to |
| 0:43.2 | Beg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion |
| 0:46.3 | featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum. |
| 0:49.6 | We range from center left to center right. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bull Work, and I'm joined by our regulars, |
| 0:58.1 | Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stag newsletter, |
| 1:04.1 | Notes from the Middle Ground, and Linda Chavez of the Neskannon Center. |
| 1:09.1 | Our special guest this week is Rachel Kleinfeld. |
| 1:12.1 | Rachel is a senior fellow in the Democracy Conflict |
| 1:15.5 | and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment |
| 1:17.9 | for International Peace. |
| 1:19.8 | She focuses on issues like the rule of law, security, and governance in democracies |
| 1:25.2 | experiencing polarization, violence, and other governance matters. Never thought |
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