[ahi]

Somehow I missed his passing last year. Harper's was very important to me as a teenager stuck in the cultural wasteland of suburbia. Smart, critical, and often funny, it showed me writing didn't have to suck.

I was trying to come up with a descriptor when I found an obit: "Lewis was the last of a breed that never had many members to begin with: the patrician liberal."

https://www.newstatesman.com/appreciation/2024/07/lewis-laph...

[owlninja]

Me too and I thought I looked at HN too much. Here was the only post I could find

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41106041