Remembering Douglas Adams: Was he political?

The British novelist Douglas Adams, best known for “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” would have been 64 today. (He died in 2001 of a heart attack.)Today – 15 years after his death – thousands of tributes to Adams are circulating on social media. His work was beloved by fans of science fiction and comic writing, by atheists and environmentalists, and by nearly everyone, it seems, who found his novels at an impressionable age. These are the kinds of books which,