Our superpower is a reason for hope in 2021

Despite the huge setbacks globally in 2020, I am hopeful for 2021. Mostly it’s because of my faith in our people. In America, we are blessed with a wonderfully diverse culture of individuals, including immigrants from other more oppressive countries who believe in our great experiment. One of our challenges leading up to 2020 was our level of prosperity and comfort, then we were hit with a virus that threw us for a loop.

As Steven Pinker recently said, “Infectious disease is the rule among living things, not the exception. Progress consists of solving problems, and nothing guarantees that new...