The President of the College presentsat Convocation a line in a Germanpoem to represent the spirit ofliberal arts education: Lass dich fallen (Let yourself fall/fail).
To be sure, there are plenty of stories from the liberal-left that pull no punches: John Judis in a recent issue of the New Republic presents a reasoned dissection of the administration's failure to engage in the theatricality of populism, which FDR so ably did in similarly dire circumstances.