The Passive Differential Attitude of Travelers

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The author was in Abu Dhabi for a conference. He visited the Falcon Hospital, where you can have your picture taken with an actual falcon on your arm. "I'm standing here on a bridge into Bleecy with a parrot on my arm," he says of his trip to Georgia. The essay has been misinterpreted as telling people not to travel or saying that travel is bad.

🎵 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

Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained

Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices