People are too polite to say this, so I will...

 Take one:

David Brooks

The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be

By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Dec. 19, 2024 

When I was an agnostic, I thought faith was primarily about belief. Being religious was about having a settled conviction that God existed and knowing that the stories in the Bible were true.

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David Brooks came to Christianity via his girlfriend, now current wife. A woman who had been working as his "personal assistant" and was years younger when he as a now-divorced man was sexually attracted to her youth. Brooks never identified publicly as "agnostic." He was a Jewish-American writer, opining in a conservative vein at the NYT.  A family man. (His son served in the IDF during the years he was publicly champion the Bush-Cheney middle east wars.)

Because he used his role as family man to push his product, it's fair to "reveal" facts: His first wife not only changed her surname when she married him years ago, but also her first name. She converted to his religion -- Judaism -- to ensure their children would be considered Jewish as a birthright, which is gifted via the mother's lineage.

Columns like this, intertwining his newfound Christianity with his sexual advances in marrying younger second wife, who converted him to her own religion, are not as impressive as the NYT seems to think.  Wonderful story material for a religious periodical interested in private testimony;  off putting to millions of quiet everyday Christians celebrating their high holy days in the coming week...

Please reconsider letting David Brooks go, as you did Paul Krugman. Not only will this make more room for fresh voices needing to be heard, but you won't look like you are endorsing this cad for his private life that benefits mostly himself. People already think prosperity Christianity and political evangelicism are off-putting and not helpful to the faith... don't keep rewarding this and publishing stories that David Brooks and David French are selling as something universal to all readers...

You really can do better, put out "spiritual" editorials that are more helpful to us all, rather than just the white males trotting out their W's. Hth.