Not by me. In the Times, Michiko Kakutani writes up Noam Scheiber’s new book on the Obama economic team, The Escape Artists.

For Harvardians, here is the relevant material:

Mr. Scheiber suggests that in-fighting among members of the Obama economic team slowed decision making and resulted in often muddled policy. He argues that Lawrence H. Summers, the director of the National Economic Council who acted as a sort of gatekeeper for President Obama, was “next to hopeless” when it came to generating a workable plan.

“Summers’s talent was for influencing a particular decision at a particular moment,” Mr. Scheiber writes. “He was not someone with a flair for the long game — for the week-in, week-out slog of bringing colleagues around to his views. His N.E.C. meetings had a persistent aimless quality. The academic-style discourse would drag on for hours without producing a single concrete conclusion; it would yield only increasingly esoteric questions.”

That idea—that Summers was incapable of building a constituency to support his ideas, whether good or bad—will of course be familiar to anyone who observed Summers during his years as Harvard president.

Meanwhile, the New Republic’s Tim Noah points out an item in Scheiber’s index that will also bring back memories for Harvardians: “Summers, Larry, appearance and personal hygiene of.“