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."
While I am not interested in the style of the compounded essay, Lewis Lapham was a terrific essayist, and having a link to so much of his work in one place is worth a bookmark on its own. Lapham's Quarterly was a joy to purchase and flip through.
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...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41106041