i'm worried about a civil war in america. When you have a large segment of the porpulate population that thinks the country is irredeemable, i think it's an extremely important issue. And i thinkt it rips through education in an incredibly important way. Those two sides tend not to get along. They're not going to get along if there's ever a national threat that they need to pull together to fight. Ah, if they do, it won't work quite as well.
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.