Trying to bring back the "good ol' days" of the !940s and 1950s is a flight from the present. There is real danger that nostalgia could easily turn into unwitting self-satire. I offer the sartorial splendor of Cardinal Burke as an example. Retreats to the past are forms of denial. They don't work and never have. The confusion of the present is to be preferred to the smug triumphalism of a past that never was.