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While Los Angeles aims an occasional rhetorical jab at the left, Rieff's second book on Miami, The Exile , was an act of defiant apostasy, sympathetic to the Cuban émigrés' sufferings and aspirations, and contemptuous of the Castro regime.
You can question whether that apostasy was necessary, but you cannot claim that it has been a disaster--and you cannot disguise the fact that those who predicted disaster were letting politics and ideology cloud their judgment.
The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.
When I was deputy editor of the New Republic during a seven-month period of apostasy in 1994, there were no fact checkers; it was before the whole Ruth Shalit business, so the fact checking "department" that Jack describes did not exist.
(To read Slate's take on Pat's apostasy, click here.)