Don't we wish. I don't see the SOB apologizing for supporting LBJ and the Great Society - the beginning of the real rise of welfare state - and of all the troubles since. Talk about a corrupting influence. The rise of the welfare state with its cadres of "gimme more - I deserve it because I'm a victim" whiners is the legacy of Sulzberger and his ilk.
It's subconscious. He would probably never do so out and out...but in essence, that is the truth of the matter. Down deep...he knows, and one day has to come to grips with the legacy he has attempted to pass on to his own descendants.