It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse....
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Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (1995), pp. 36-7Irving Kristol
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