I Can't Leave the UK, I'm Going to Go, Like, Make All My Friends From Other Countries

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The writer met a group of middle class Americans at the airport. He says they didn't express any hostility to imigrants, just that they wanted control. The power of knowing who has your back is you can trust them, he writes.

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.