It’s always tempting to say that someone who wrote an influential book on an issue wrote the definitive book. Hardly ever the case. But in this instance totally the case. In 1998, William L. White wrote Slaying the Dragon: The … Continue reading
Jack El-Hai wrote much of his groundbreaking Walter Freeman biography The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness at Sebastian Joe’s ice cream cafe in Minneapolis, so that’s where we met … Continue reading
Dr. Lewis M. Andrews is that rare intellectual who believes in divine intervention. He experienced it several years ago after giving a lecture on common therapy, which is his thesis that there are common truths to be found in all … Continue reading