I had the opportunity to travel all over this country last year, and I have to say, the only places that don't fill me with deep disgust and existential dread a

I had the opportunity to travel all over this country last year, and I have to say, the only places that don't fill me with deep disgust and existential dread are a) the national parks, and b) the cities with plenty of very tall skyscrapers. The vast in-between of freeway interchanges, cookie-cutter subdivisions, strip malls, and big box stores, where the tallest thing around is the McDonalds or ExxonMobil sign, is an abomination. I will fill up at those gas stations and eat at those McDonalds on the way between places worth being, but whoo boy, if I had to live in a place like that I'd vote for demagogues too. I'm not a principled libertarian. Ideally, the law would stipulate that people who build to your preferences are hanged for war crimes. However, I suggest that we implement a free(r) market so that we can both live in the kinds of places we want, instead of one excluding the other.