Cory Franklin

The Greek historian Herodotus lived through the plague of Athens, one of the world's first great pandemics. He wrote, "Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances." So it is...

If it is true that generals fight the last war and economists fight the last depression, then the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that doctors fight the last pandemic. Some experts...

Twenty years ago, when I was working in the intensive care unit, I saved a young man's life. He was 19 years old, and he was frothing at the mouth...

William Faulkner once wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even the past." He meant that events from the past can still affect us now or in the future....

Last month, two legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Famers died within days of each other: Charlie Watts and Don Everly. Of the two, Watts, drummer and backbone of the...

In the latest phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the extremely contagious delta variant is now causing at least 80% of the infections in the U.S. . The emergence of the...

In Homer's "Iliad," the story of the war between the ancient Greeks and Trojans, the Greeks used a secret weapon, the Trojan horse, to vanquish their enemy at the close...

Why do people refuse to get vaccinated for COVID-19? Those who do fall into two basic categories: "anti-vaxxers" who are opposed to vaccines on general principles, and the "vaccine hesitant"...

What is "vaccine clout?" A term popularized in Chicago, "clout" was defined by legendary newspaper columnist Mike Royko as political influence exercised through patronage, fixing, money, favors or similar measures....