The “New Atheists,” as writers such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens are known, are joined by a heavyweight of leftist philosophy and practice: Ronald Aronson, a Sartre scholar whose new book, Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided, “represents a radical departure” from the pugilistic polemics of the aforementioned, according to Doug Ireland, writing in The New Humanist. Not least because Aronson’s atheism is actually as left as the right thinks all atheism is. But Harris and Hitchens are, by dint of their determination that Islam is deserving of special dislike, neocons; and Dawkins and Dennet are liberals. Aronson, meanwhile, is a proud, lifelong socialist, and as such his vision of godlessness may more boldly imagine humanist alternatives to religion.