PanThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)The influence of screen, diet, exercise and pollution on the mind’s well-being are indeed pressing concerns, but, given their familiarity, Hari’s air of breathless, personal discovery is grating ... In one of the few cases in which he pits two expert views against one another, he looks at the role social media plays in radicalization. He endorses the more extreme view – the claim of direct and significant harm – via a \'thought exercise\' of his own, in which the fine-grained work of Andrew Przybylski and his team is casually discounted. Hari does not reference the articles that would help readers conduct their own “thought exercises”. This is an alarmist narrative that undermines the critical focus it aims to champion.
