A kind of revival – Michael Barone notes that the waters will recede but the underlying problems of New Orleans, widespread crime and corruption, will continue: “But New Orleans' heritages of upper-class complaisance and political corruption -- the result of the city's French tradition -- work against a more broadly based commercial and economic revival. Without changes in these attitudes, historic New Orleans may revive, but the city will become little more than a theme park, like Venice, and not the great commercial beehive it once was.”