Professor David Heymann shares his perspectives on post-pandemic life and on opportunities for the public health sector.

A good definition of the tragedy of the commons is that "resources that are unowned and/or unownable will be plundered to extinction."

Anyone considering going to the very conservative College of the Ozarks knows what he's getting into. Yet the Biden administration has launched a war on this tiny college in the name of "equality" for transgendered students who have no reason to ever set foot there.

Value facilitation is a creative act of imagination, design, assembly, communication, and agile responsiveness. Bill Sanders, an expert in contract negotiation in business, applies these actions in dealmaking and business relationship management.

The difficulty Trump encountered in trying to even slightly scale back American military schemes shows just how far Americans are from abandoning the idea that the United States is the indispensable nation entitled to fight wars always and everywhere. 

Corporate America—from Facebook to Google to Major League Baseball—got rich by giving the consumers what they want. Now these big firms will use their riches to crush their ideological enemies. That's life in a "mixed economy." 

We're beginning to see some early attempts by private firms to provide simple, affordable private security beyond wealthy or corporate clients. 

It's too late for American member states to assert real independence from the central government without facing an avalanche of legal, political, and even military opposition. Europeans would be wise to not put themselves in a similar position.

It seems absurd to have to point out that economic cannibalism, even in the face of a virus, cannot produce anything but devastation, but alas, we live in absurd times.

Many have long speculated that there is a correlation between economic prosperity and the length of women's hemlines. But perhaps it's now "mom jeans," with their high waists and ample fit, that indicate the true state of the economy.