Molder of the American Mind

In an article in Progressive Education Magazine, Professor Norman Woelfel produced one of the many children and grandchildren of the Conclusions report when he wrote in 1946: "It might be necessary paradoxically for us to control our press as the Russian press is controlled and as the Nazi press is controlled"[p.178], a startling conclusion he improved upon in his book Molders of the American Mind (1933) with this dark beauty: "In the minds of the men who think experimentally, America is conceived as having a destiny which bursts the all too obvious limitations of Christian religious sanctions"[p.252].