Yes, atheists and agnostics can be conservative. Of course they can. According to Gallup, the number of self-described atheists in America is astoundingly small. In the latest Gallup poll, only 3 percent of Americans say there is no God, while another 4 percent say God probably does not exist — that’s a total of 7 percent in the atheist camp. Only 5 percent say “God maybe exists,” so there are your agnostics. So if the Right is doing something to turn off atheists and agnostics, it clearly can survive their disaffection. And philosophically, Heather Mac Donald — whom I respect enormously — doesn’t offer an example of what atheists and agnostics bring to the Rightist table philosophically that people of faith are unable to bring themselves. That said, nobody likes to be preached to when the preacher insists that you have to agree with him in every particular.