Michael Schulson

What we search for may be instructive, but what we turn up may be just as important.

A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and public intellectual Lawrence Krauss as “a windbag.” One of us (Michael) can attest that Andrew is among the kindest…

You could read this as a straightforward narrative of medical recovery. Or you could read it as a fraught parable of modern identity: Doctors diagnose a two-year-old boy, Alex, with autism. Like other…