ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an area that Professor Higgs relatively neglects: the coming to power during the war of the various groups of progressive intellectuals. As Professor Timberlake put it, once the Kingdom of God was in the course of being established in the United States, American entry into World War I provided the fulfillment of prohibitionist dreams. On the higher levels of ratiocination, unquestionably the leading progressive intellectual before, during, and after World War I was the champion of pragmatism, Professor John Dewey of Columbia University. World War I was the apotheosis of the growing notion of intellectuals as servants of the state and junior partners in state rule. In the new fusion of intellectuals and state, each was of powerful aid to the other. Intellectuals could serve the state by apologizing for and supplying rationales for its deeds.
