Thursday's Notes

Jim Holt,"Smarter, Happier, More Productive," LRB, 3 March, reviews Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember.

Andrew Martin,"Domestic and Epic," The Book, 2 March, reviews Garin K. Hovannisian's Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream.

Benjamin R. Barber of Rutgers takes his licks:
Timothy Burke,"Today's Captain Renault Moment," Easily Distracted, 25 February;
Paul A. Rahe,"The Vanity of the Intellectuals," Ricochet, 28 February; and
Judith Miller,"Gaddafi's Son's Sham Exposed," Daily Beast, 2 March.
Marc Lynch and Ken Silverstein had Barber pegged four years ago.