COVID-19 is our common enemy. Why the political left and right should unite to save lives.

We’ve gotten out of the habit of working together even where we agree. That is the deeper existential crisis the pandemic brings to light.

The resurgence of the coronavirus has thrust the pandemic back to the fore of our national consciousness. Living vs. making a living? A false dichotomy. We don’t believe that these values to be mutually exclusive. Both are possible, both necessary. And we need each other to figure out how to make both happen.

Political heresy? No.

The pandemic represents what folklore holds as the Chinese...