 What is puzzling in all of this is that those invested in the idiom of classical pragmatism nearly always write Sidney Hook out of pragmatism’s history. Once Hook is acknowledged, one sees the Deweyan vision of philosophy thriving throughout the period of alleged marginalization. That is, one finds in Hook not only a high-profile publicly engaged philosopher employing the methods of experimental inquiry to present social problems, but also an influential academic philosopher engaged with the professional debates of his day, and often making necessary concessions and adjustments to the pragmatist commitments in light of new objections and evidence. Although Hook’s results do not always reflect “chapter and verse” Deweyanism, they do retain what is far more important, namely, the unflagging commitment to the application of experimental intelligence to the social and political problems of the day.