 In June 2011 Schwarz moved to the Times's National Desk to focus on broader public-health issues such as child psychiatry and drug abuse.He left the Times in August 2016 to become a data-storytelling consultant and write two books about mathematics.This chapter in Ruttman's oral history, based on an April 24, 2009 interview with Schwarz conducted for the book, discusses Schwarz's American, Jewish, baseball, and life experiences from youth to the present.