Tyler Cowen

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TBPN · DOJ vs. Fed Chair, Apple Repositions Vision Pro, Ben Thompson Joins | Tyler Cowen, Harley Finkelstein, Andrew Feldman, Nathan Nwachuku, Anastasios Angelopoulos · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

You look at the older parts of San Francisco, the Victorian homes, they're beautiful.

You look at the new buildings.

I like some of them, but a lot of them are just awful.

Or you look at parking structures, or you look at a new bank branch that goes up somewhere.

Awful, awful, awful.

Are we really so poor a society that we cannot afford to invest in more beauty?

So Patrick and I are trying to get people to think more systematically.

What can we do to try to make much more of our world just plain flat, outright lovely?

It absolutely can be done.

That's one problem and there are too many veto points.

But if you go back earlier in time to the nineteen twenties, say you look at a neighborhood like Shaker Heights near Cleveland.

Where the homes are being built by different families for the most part, they're still far more beautiful than homes being built today.

So I don't think that's the sole main root of the issue.

I think just bad taste is.

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Well if you do all that and you live in the West Village, you're surrounded by beautiful buildings.

Sure.

I'd like there to be more places in the country where you have that choice to be surrounded by beauty that you don't just have to be all scrunched in.

That you can have reasonable living space and afford it and what's around you looks nice.

Again, people have done this in the past, even the distant past, even sometimes in medieval times.

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