[Marxism] Dawkins in Times Book Review

[Andrew Pollack]

Yesterday's NY Times Book Review had an awful front page review of Richard
  Dawkins' wonderful new book promoting atheism:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Holt.t.html?em&ex=1161748800&en=549c6d1a6cf34351&ei=5087%0A
  (first chapter of the book at:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/chapters/1022-1st-dawk.html?ref=books)
  The reviewer, Jim Holt, has no apparent credentials, and the whole tone of the review is a whiny "Yuh-HUH, there is TOO a God!"
  (see another insipid piece of his at http://www.slate.com/id/2075653/)
  
  This stands in marked contrast, by the way, to the mature review by  George Will of Brooke Adams' book on the Founding Fathers' secularism  and deism. Will (and a quick Google seems to show this is a pattern  with him) is intellectually honest enough to admit the facts even if  it's a liberal stating them:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Will.t.html
  
  P.S. There's more, in the Letters section, on the I.F. Stone controversy, including a good one from D.D. Guttenplan:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Letters.t-1.html
  
  
 		
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