The Mona Charen Show

Ukraine's brave stand against Russia has united Americans behind them. Will this new found bipartisanship mute extremists on the right and left?

Highlights/Lowlights:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/berkeley-enrollment-climate-crisis.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-considers-accepting-yuan-instead-of-dollars-for-chinese-oil-sales-11647351541?st=tntg9j85l4ay6gx&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-russia-voznesensk-town-battle-11647444734

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The Atlantic’s Jonathan Rauch joins the group (including Cathy Young) to consider whether a federal judge saying Trump is a likely criminal should spur DOJ? Also, the “Don’t Say Gay” law, Ginni Thomas, Biden’s popularity, and more.

Highlights & Lowlights:

• Mona's highlight: DCist: Maryland Will No Longer Require Four-Year Degrees For Thousands Of State Jobs (https://dcist.com/story/22/03/15/maryland-college-degree-requirement/)
• Damon's highlight: NY Times: Yes, There Is a Clash of Civilizations (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/ukraine-clash-of-civilizations.html)
• Damon's other highlight: Slow Boring: Ukraine and the end of history (https://www.slowboring.com/p/ukraine-and-the-end-of-history?s=r)
• Bill Galston and Jonathan Rauch's highlight: Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627792325/secretcity)

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Eric Edelman joins to discuss war crimes, defense spending, and Putinists abroad and at home.

• Mona's highlight: https://www.joshbarro.com/p/heres-the-chart-you-need-to-understand?s=r
• Linda's highlight: https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/orbans-china-infatuation/
• Bill's highlight: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1963_MLK_Letter_Abridged.pdf

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Noah Smith joins to consider whether inflation is really as bad as it looks and whether we can ever have a sensible immigration policy in our divided country.

Notable Links:

• From Mona: "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid" (The Atlantic): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
• From Linda: "Point of Compact" (Quillette): https://quillette.com/2022/04/12/point-of-compact/
• From Bill: "Christianism" (Liberties): https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/christianism/
• From Damon: "Le Pen and Trump Could Succeed Where the Russian Army Failed" (The Bulwark): https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/le-pen-and-trump-could-succeed-where?s=w

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