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"The real question," Rieff insisted, "is whether the refugee emergency is going to be permanent ...
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.
He is certainly the most visible, holding forth in the pages of everything from the Wall Street Journal to the New Republic to Salmagundi . More than any other journalist, Rieff has tried to mold the lessons of Bosnia and Rwanda into a coherent worldview.
His father is University of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff, the author, most notably, of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist . His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize.
"Everyone I knew was taking the transformation of their own country in stride," Rieff marvels in Los Angeles . Not him: "Often, I would sit in a restaurant and be literally unable to follow the conversation going on around me, so mesmerized was I by the Laotian busboy, or the Peruvian parking lot attendant, or the Haitian dishwasher--our new fellow countrymen.