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Refusing to pay an unjustified toll may be contemptuous of Washington, but it's respectful of democracy.
The showing of the Clinton videotapes on television was roundly condemned across Europe this week, where the press was as lavish in its praise of the American people as it was contemptuous of their leaders.
Thirty years ago, when John Kenneth Galbraith published The New Industrial State , he was sure he knew where the modern economy was going and was contemptuous of economists who clung to their old ideas about the primacy of markets.
He retails various "suspicions," then assures us that they are "contemptuous."
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.