When the complete picture of Randolph Bourne emerges, he will be seen as the pioneer spirit of his age, a symbol of our future. His place in the American tradition is secure. His life marks the beginning of our "coming-of- age. James Oppenheim, Editor...
The State was an unfinished, unpaginated draft left by Randolph Bourne when he died during the flu pandemic of 1918. This draft, also known as War is the Health of the State , was published posthumously in a collection of essays Untimely Papers (1919)....
The American intellectuals seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. Randolph Bourne, in The War and the Intellectuals , 1917