Originally I was going to call this post “The New York Times coddles faith again,” but there is not all that much coddling in this review of Christopher Beha’s new book Why I am not an Atheist. From my post:Even the title of this New Yorker article is dumb: “faith in atheism” is an oxymoron, for a lack of belief in gods is not a “faith” in any meaningful sense. But it plays well with the progressive New Yorker crowd (same as the NY Times crowd) in being soft on religion and hard on atheism. That is something Egan apparently documents in his own book and is, of course, the subject of Beha’s book. Instead, Egan’s take is anodyne, for one simply cannot get away with pushing nonbelief in the New York Times.

Source: New York Times March 02, 2026 22:48 UTC