True, doing my morning penance with the New York Times, I would glance at his column to see what had set off today’s snit, and sometimes I would even read the column, merely to confirm that, once you knew the occasion for his unhappiness, you knew what he would say without reading the column. Tony Lewis, we are given to understand, has been, over all these years, the champion of faith in reason. “In the end I believe that faith in reason will prevail,” writes Tony Lewis in his farewell column.