The Case Against Travel

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Agnes Callard: People imbue travel with a kind of magical aura of transformation and virtue. She says we seek out experiences that we don't usually have, such as going to an Oregon concert in Europe. But because these aren't normally things we do, she argues, we don't know how to experience them. And the second is that travel is not actually very friendly and humanistic,. Rather, when we go somewhere, we adopt the attitude of sort of watching a movie."

🎵 Now that I’m away, I wish I had stayed. 🎵 Vox’s Allie Volpe explains why travel feels like such a mess right now (and how to make it a bit better). And the New Yorker’s Agnes Callard makes the case against travel altogether.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

Vox’s first-ever travel guide answers some of the biggest questions about navigating the world, the country, and your own backyard: https://vox.com/how-to-travel-now

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