Brad DeLong posted a lengthy excerpt (or all of it) from Kristol's 1993 essay, "My Cold War" and here's a part I found interesting:
It was [Reinhold] Niebuhr who introduced me to the idea of "the human condition" as something permanent, inevitable, trans-cultural, trans-historical, a transcendent finitude. To entertain seriously such a vision is already to have disengaged oneself from a crucial progressive-liberal piety. It enables one to read the Book of Genesis with an appreciation that approaches awe.I'm annoyed that Kristol didn't tell us exactly what the "crucial progressive-liberal piety" is but I suspect it has to do with Mankinds' possibility for improvement. This possibility involves pointing out blatant contradictions, even those found in Genesis.
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