Randolph Silliman Bourne (1886-1918) was an American pacifist, cultural critic, and leader of the "youth movement" of the 1910s. His repudiation of official World War I attitudes inspired later pacifist dissenters. Randolph Bourne was born on May 30,...

Randolph Bourne was a spokesperson for the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the mid 1910s and the foremost intellectual opponent of American intervention in World War I. Writing in a self-consciously prophetic style, Bourne gave voice to other...

Manfred B. Steger, Illinois State University In the raging controversies of our time over issues of social and political identity, difference, and cultural pluralism, currency often trumps historical memory. To be sure, it would be foolish to dismiss the significance and relevance...

Randolph, Jeane And the Contras RAndolph Bourne and Jeane Kirkpatrick would have eyed each other with fine contempt. He was a hunchbacked journalist who wrote for small magazines like The New Republic, The Dial and Seven Arts in the early twentieth century....