Megan McArdle on Belonging, Home, and National Identity

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is December 13th, 2021.
0:40.0	And before introducing today's guest, I want to let listeners know there's a new version
0:44.0	of the econ talk episode with Nina Kraus about her book of sound mind.
0:48.7	Some listeners detected an annoying background noise, at least with their quality of airing.
0:53.7	So we ironically perhaps put up a new edition of the episode.
0:56.8	If you stop listening because of the noise, you'll be free to download the new and improved
1:00.5	file.
1:02.1	My guest today is Megan McCartle of the Washington Post.
1:05.4	This is Megan's sixth appearance at econtalk.
1:07.7	She was last here in March of 2021 talking about catastrophes and the pandemic.
1:13.8	Megan, welcome back to econtalk.
1:15.5	Thanks for having me.
1:17.3	Our topic today is a little unusual.
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