The Ties That Bind Us

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There are a lot of ties that bind us, right? Many of which we choose. Ow you can choose where to live in some ixet. You can't chooe where you're born. I think too, there's nothing to make you feel like an american like living abroad. Rit suddenly you realize all the ways in which you are very much not like the people elsewhere. And i think at that is the thing that the pandemic drove home,. but i had always already thought, right?, he says.

After being stranded with a bunch of Brits for eight hours at a German airport in 2016, journalist Megan McArdle felt that Brexit was going to happen. The giveaway? Not the concerns over economics or politics. Rather, it was about something far more elemental: in whom they could place their trust. Join the journalist and Washington Post columnist for a discussion with EconTalk host Russ Roberts of the late British philosopher Roger Scruton's poetic exploration of home and nation, Where We Are: The State of Britain Now, and a discussion of why, when it comes to loyalties, it's our mates that matter.