On Sidney Harman

As you may have noticed Sidney Harman died last night. I’ll leave to folks who knew him to eulogize. My only contact with him was a brief meeting in his DC office about a dozen years ago. I’m writing this because I figure many of you know that he was a speakers magnate, the husband of a former member of Congress and for whatever reason saved Newsweek and arranged its marriage to The Daily Beast. What you might not know is that Harman was a very important benefactor of many progressive causes going back decades.