"With that, Prof. Katznelson said, he then asked Irving what he thought of affirmative action. 'I oppose it,' Irving said. 'It subverts meritocracy.'

"The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle's chief of staff, and how he got his start in politics. Irving recalled how he talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at Harvard, who secured William a place there as both an undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to Pat Moynihan, then Nixon's domestic policy adviser, and got William an internship at the White House; how he talked to friends at the RNC [Republican National Committee] and secured a job for William after he got his Harvard Ph.D.; and how he arranged with still more friends for William to teach at Penn and the Kennedy School of Government.

Irving on why the US is stuck with his piece of shit son. Irving was a shitty parent as he was a 'thinker'.