The Final Beg to Differ

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Mona and the gang bid farewell to this format, discuss what will replace it, and offer a glimpse of future plans.

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Highlights / Lowlights:

Mona outlined the future of her new show.

Bill previews his forthcoming book on political psychology.

Linda: The Silver Candlesticks: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition, Linda’s forthcoming book, which you can pre-order now! Make sure you sign up for Linda’s Substack.

Damon: While Damon finishes his forthcoming book on Leo Strauss, go down the Straussian rabbithole at Notes from the Middleground.

Referenced work: Bret Stephens’s “Done With Trump” in the NYT

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1:07.4	civil conversation across the political spectrum. We range from center left to center
1:12.3	right. I'm Mona Charin, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the bulwark, and I'm joined by
1:17.6	our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker,
1:23.4	who writes the substack newsletter notes from the middle ground, and Linda Chavez of the Nis-Gannon Center.
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1:49.4	week every week, and we hope that you've found it informative and useful, but with the advent of a
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