ABSTRACT
But by the end of 1917, Thorstein Veblen began to feel rather isolated at the University of Missouri. Veblen then moved to New York to become an editor of The Dial, an avant-garde political magazine, located in Greenwich Village. The Dial sought to serve as an organ of "Reconstruction", concerned with the rebuilding of post-World War I society on a new basis. Reconstruction in education meant Dewey's pragmatism. Babe and the children joined Thorstein in New York—she had found an apartment on Riverside Drive—and enrolled the girls in high school. A series of Veblen's short articles, originally printed in The Dial from October 19, 1918, until January 25, 1919, were reprinted in a book on March 1919, under the title The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts. Veblen reported the death of his beloved Babe to his brother Andrew in a terse, understated manner on October 8, 1920.
