Richard Dawkins's Nonsense Makes Me Miss the Not-Quite-New Atheism of Quentin Smith

Instead of being about politicized anti-theism as a front in the culture war, perhaps public atheism could have been about...atheism.

Richard Dawkins is in the news again.

I remember a time when the cultural spotlight couldn’t get enough of him. He was portrayed (brutally) in South Park and given an (affectionate) cameo on The Simpsons. There was an episode of Family Guy where Brian has a meet-cute with a woman at Barnes & Noble because they’re simultaneously reaching for the same copy…