
Beg to Differ with Mona Charen
Hosted by Mona Charen · The Bulwark
4.5from 1,476 ratings
- 296
- Episodes
- 137
- Transcribed
- 1,476
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 20K
- YouTube views
About Beg to Differ with Mona Charen
After a great five year run on Beg to Differ, Mona Charen brings you a new show dedicated to deepening your understanding of complex issues and trends facing society. Each week she'll engage an expert for a probing discussion that goes past the day's headlines.
- Publisher
- The Bulwark
- Category
- news · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Oct 2019
- Latest episode
- 20 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
137 of 296 episodes have a transcript.

20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Bulwark Book Club: The Odyssey—Did the movie live up to the hype? (w/ Sonny Bunch)
Published 20 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And what this means is not necessarily clear in the movie, but in I was reading up on this and it and Xenia in ancient Greek culture meant the law about reciprocity, about how you treat guests and that that in a sort of pre. international world where you could check into a hotel. Travelers needed a food and a place to sleep when they were traveling. And this was a very important sort of reciprocal courtesy that people did for one another. And the Greeks sort of made it into a sign that You were civilized. And Ulysses, in his travels, he's constantly winding up on the shores of some island that he doesn't know about. […]
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- Sonny Bunch
- Adam Isacson
- John Walsh
- Bill Galston
- Linda Chavez
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- YouTube views
- 19,657
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 1,319 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 157 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
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- Quality
- 63
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 99
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