Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…Final question. What flavor of drama was our conversation today? Tragedy, comic opera, what was it? I don’t know that it was any of those. I think it had two parts. The first part was about your book. It was a bit of debate back and forth. People get a sense of where we differ, that I like the suburbs more than you do. I like the American Southeast more than you do. I think the American media overrates the importance of the dysfunctionality of New York and San Francisco. We went through that in a way I think both of us found a bit predictable, but was necessary to do. Then, we had all these other parts. I haven’t heard most of your other 50 interviews, but probably you didn’t speak very much about Yunnan, didn’t speak about Italian opera, didn’t speak about volume one of The Three-Body Problem. I knew that would be, for me, the better part of the podcast, but the readers need both. We ran over time. That was on purpose. It was a switching thing. Not a single mood. I don’t know what opera you would compare that to. Maybe it’s Fidelio in a way, right? I’ll take Fidelio. When you have these excellent recordings like Christa Ludwig singing at the very end, it is the very end of Fidelio always moves me.…

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