Beyond its severe toll on human life and public health, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in routines that we have long assumed were reliable and safe. Reevaluating these routines will help us find new and better ways of doing things, but only if we leave some bad ideas in the dustbin. As Cato scholars Daniel J. Ikenson and Simon Lester explain in this Pandemics and Policy issue, one of these ideas is that the pandemic is proof of the failures of globalization. Instead, they show how without the global economy, America will be poorer, more vulnerable, and less resilient.