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Self-Reliance: An American Virtue One chilly afternoon just after Thanksgiving, I stood in the crowded lot of my local auto repair shop in Front Royal, Virginia, watching the mechanic try to remove the metal caps from the pressure valves on my tires. He explained no one should have put such caps on these nozzles because they get stuck, as they were now, and taking them off by force could damage the tires. He first used WD-40 and a wrench, then disappeared inside, returned with a blowtorch, gingerly heated one of the caps and valves, and tried the wrench again.  “Impressive,” I said when ...

Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar? (Ep. 445) December 23, 2020 @ 11:00pm In this episode of  No Stupid Questions — a Freakonomics Radio Network show launched earlier this year — Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth debate why we watch, read, and eat familiar things during a crisis, and if it might in fact be better to try new things instead. Also: is a little knowledge truly as dangerous as they say? Listen and subscribe to No Stupid Questions  at  *      *      * It was nearly one year ago — on Christmas Day, 2019 — that we released a pilot episode of a show we t...

Read the full transcript below: GEORGE PRENTICE: It's Morning Edition on Boise State Public Radio News. Good morning. I'm George Prentice. Quick, what's your favorite Christmas movie? Well, for many of us, it has to be It's a Wonderful Life. And when most of us watch it, we see Jimmy Stewart up on the screen as George Bailey; and young Bob Anderson as the young George Bailey. But when Deb Gutierrez watches, up there on the screen she sees her dad, Bob Anderson. I met Deb several years ago. She lives here in Idaho. And as we approach another holiday, I asked her to spend a few minutes with us ...

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. A just reprinted novel from 1948 by Betty Smith has a title that seems perfect for the present. It's called "Tomorrow Will Be Better." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says that optimistic title isn't the only thing to recommend this novel. Here's her review. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: I think Philip Roth should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, but I don't think everything he wrote was prize worthy. Exhibit A - "The Breast," his 1972 Kafkaesque novel where the male protagonist morphs into a giant mammary gland. So when I saw the phrase a...

The Books We Read in 2020 SHARE The Wall Street Journal asked people of some prominence to name the best books they read in 2020. So I asked my colleagues. Honestly, I like this list better. Of course, we all recommend the books Cato published this year. But we read more widely, and here are some of our favorites: The Little House By Virginia Lee Burton - This children's story tracks our heroine—a well-built, 19th-century country home enjoying the stars at night and the changing seasons—as modern urban life creeps closer, surrounds her, and takes her land, her enjoyment of nature, a...