Episodios

  • Most Corrupt Ever

    Most Corrupt Ever
    Jun 2 2025
    The Atlantic's Jonathan Rauch joins Mona to talk about Trump's Achilles Heel.
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    45 m
  • Conservatism RIP?

    Conservatism RIP?
    May 26 2025
    Jay Nordlinger returns to discuss whether conservatism remains valid in the MAGA era.

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    REFERENCES:

    • Against All Hope – Armando Valladares
      Memoir of a Cuban dissident imprisoned for his anti-Castro beliefs.

    • Children of Monsters – Jay Nordlinger
      Referenced indirectly by Mona as part of Jay’s dissident coverage; a book profiling the children of dictators.

    • Peace, They Say – Jay Nordlinger

    • JayNordlinger.com, Jay’s new Substack.
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    51 m
  • How Americans Can Cease Being Rich

    How Americans Can Cease Being Rich
    May 19 2025
    Economist Noah Smith delves into the myth of the "hollowed out" middle class, the folly of protectionism, and more. He and Mona differ on Trump's handling of Covid and . . . American chocolate.

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    1 h y 1 m
  • Nobody Dresses Anymore

    Nobody Dresses Anymore
    May 12 2025
    Columnist and music critic Jay Nordlinger joins Mona for an excursion into classical music. No coat or tie required.

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    Here’s a list of every musical piece played in the episode.

    1. Thomas Tallis – Motet from the Gospel of John
    2. Johann Sebastian Bach – Preludio from Partita in E major for solo violin
    3. J.S. Bach (arr. Rachmaninoff) – Preludio (Bach/Rachmaninoff transcription)
    4. Ludwig van Beethoven – Final movement from a String Quartet in C major
    5. Léo Delibes – “Flower Duet” from Lakmé
    6. Giuseppe Verdi – Duet from Otello
    7. Antonín Dvořák – Humoresque
    8. Antonín Dvořák – Humoresque (Jazz rendition)
    9. Maurice Ravel – Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
    10. Sergei Prokofiev – “Dance of the Knights” from Romeo and Juliet
    11. Sergei Prokofiev – “Midnight” from Cinderella
    12. Scott Wheeler – “If I Had a Wife” (song cycle Serenata)
    13. Daniel Asia – “My Father’s Name Was” (from Breath and a Ram's Horn)
    14. Lee Hoiby – “Goodbye, Goodbye World”
    15. Philip Glass – Violin Concerto No. 2, The American Four Seasons, final movement
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    1 h y 27 m
  • Dealmaker: The Greatest Trump Myth

    Dealmaker: The Greatest Trump Myth
    May 5 2025
    The New Yorker's Susan Glasser joins Mona to discuss Trump's big beautiful deals, the cowardice of the press, and more.

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    References:

    • The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker
    • "Letter from Trump’s Washington" (Glasser's New Yorker column)
    • Donald Trump’s first 100-day interview with Time magazine
    • Donald Trump’s interview with The Atlantic magazine
    • Pompeo Declaration (2018)
    • Opinion by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on Abrego Garcia (Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
    • AP’s lawsuit regarding press access and the Gulf of Mexico naming controversy
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    1 h y 6 m
  • The Case for Class-Based Affirmative Action

    The Case for Class-Based Affirmative Action
    Apr 28 2025
    Mona talks with Richard Kahlenberg about a proposal to make college admissions more fair in a post race preferences world.

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    📚 References

    Books:

    • Richard Kahlenberg, Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America's Colleges(2024)

    • Derek Bok, The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions(1998) — study on affirmative action outcomes.

    • Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions, edited by Richard Kahlenberg (2010)
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    47 m
  • MAGA Grievance: A Short History

    MAGA Grievance: A Short History
    Apr 21 2025
    The Atlantic's Peter Wehner offers insights into the transformation of the GOP from the party that passed PEPFAR to the MAGA warriors of today.

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    REFERENCES:

    • Peter’s recent work at The Atlantic

    • Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

    • The Closing of the American Mindby Allan Bloom

    • The Power of the Powerless and Summer Meditations by Václav Havel

    • The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    • 1984 by George Orwell
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    1 h y 7 m
  • Is Free Speech on Life Support?

    Is Free Speech on Life Support?
    Apr 14 2025

    Greg Lukianoff of FIRE joins Mona to discuss why free speech matters (hint, it's not for the powerful) and how left and right are attempting to destroy it.

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    REFERENCES:

    The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott.
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    1 h y 8 m
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