Isn't It a Good Idea to Lose a Community?

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As prejudice and the discrimination lessen, it also lessens the ties that bind your identity they are created. I'm not defending in any way the exclusion. But there's a kind of completely unintended product, which is that you have this precious thing,. You have this group of people who are like you, and it's smaller than being irish american. There's the drinking, although my family section a n th drin rains. The exclusion is bad and should end.

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.