American journalist, author, and political commentator (born 1957)
Mona Charen
Born
Mona Elaine Charen
(1957-02-25) February 25, 1957 (age 67)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
Columbia University (BA) George Washington University (JD)
Occupation(s)
Columnist, writer, political commentator, journalist
Spouse
Robert Parker
Children
3
Mona Charen Parker[1][2] (/ˈʃɛərən/; born February 25, 1957)[3] is an American columnist, journalist, and political commentator. She has written four books: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (2003), Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help (and the Rest of Us) (2005), both New York Times bestsellers,[4][5]Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense (2018), and Hard Right: The GOP's Drift Toward Extremism (2023). She was also a weekly panelist on CNN's Capital Gang until it was canceled. A political conservative,[6] she often writes about foreign policy, terrorism, politics, poverty, family structure, public morality, and culture. She is also known for her generally pro-Israel views.[7]
^"Mona and Jay and Impeachment and More". Ricochet. September 27, 2019. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
^"Barnard Graduate" (PDF). West Essex Tribune. July 26, 1979. p. 2/2. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
^"Charen, Mona 1957- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
^"Best Sellers: April 6, 2003". The New York Times. April 6, 2003. Archived from the original on December 29, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
^"Best sellers: January 23, 2005". The New York Times. January 23, 2005. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
^"Former Allies Torment Gingrich" Archived December 8, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, March 8, 1997
^"Will Israel solve our problem?" Archived December 7, 2020, at the Wayback Machine January 20, 2006; "Did Israel Drive Out the Arabs 60 Years Ago?" Archived December 7, 2020, at the Wayback Machine May 9, 2008; "Israel's Enemies Within" Archived December 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine January 7, 2011 – in the Jewish World Review
MonaCharen Parker (/ˈʃɛərən/; born February 25, 1957) is an American columnist, journalist, and political commentator. She has written four books: Useful...
positively received by conservatives such as National Review columnist MonaCharen and National Review editor and Slate columnist Reihan Salam. By contrast...
praised by some, such as Bernice King, and defended by others, such as MonaCharen, it was generally received negatively by various online commentators...
political group Defending Democracy Together, founded by Bill Kristol, MonaCharen, Linda Chavez, Sarah Longwell, and Andy Zwick in 2019. The project, a...
original panel was Pat Buchanan, Robert Novak, Al Hunt, and Mark Shields. MonaCharen and Margaret Warner joined the panel in 1992, when Buchanan left the...
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2009. Archived from the original on 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2018-06-12. MonaCharen, "Afrocentric View Distorts History and Achievement by Blacks". St. Louis...
Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. National Review columnist MonaCharen wrote that "Claremont stands out for beclowning itself with this embrace...
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The comment received pushback from fellow panelists David Urban and MonaCharen. Ioffe later apologized for the comment during the broadcast and on Twitter...
considered presumptively invalid by US sociopolitical commentators such as MonaCharen of National Review. Journalist Howard LaFranchi of The Christian Science...
When Buchanan left the network to run for president, Margaret Warner, MonaCharen, and later Margaret Carlson and Kate O'Beirne became regular panelists...
in The Asian Age, as did The Herald (Scotland), columnist and author MonaCharen in Australia's The Daily Advertiser, commentator Jonathan Power in Dubai's...
"stupid, weak & inconsequential." Other conservative women, such as MonaCharen, have shared different sentiments, calling out the "hypocrites" in the...
on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Lofton and fellow conservative columnist MonaCharen debated with two homosexual couples on the subjects of gay adoption and...
Authors (biography), Simon & Schuster "Confessions of a Bad Woman, by MonaCharen". 11 January 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2018. Hays, Charlotte. "IWF -Portrait...
Wirtualny Sztetl. 18 May. Pipes, Richard (March 7, 2014). "Need To Know with MonaCharen and Jay Nordlinger" (Interview). Interviewed by Jay Nordlinger. Romano...
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hosted a series of public interviews at the Salzburg Festival. With MonaCharen, he hosted the Need to Know podcast, and he also hosts a podcast called...
political consultant Sophia A. Nelson, author and journalist (Independent) MonaCharen, columnist, journalist and political commentator Mindy Finn, digital...
Novak. When Buchanan left CNN to run for president, Margaret Warner, MonaCharen and later Margaret Carlson and Kate O'Beirne became regular panelists...
Die Hard with a Vengeance (Baltimore, Maryland, raised in Moorestown) MonaCharen (born 1957), columnist, political analyst, author (New York City, raised...
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