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Radical essayist Randolph Bourne was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on May 30, 1886: "A terribly messy birth," he called it. Born with facial scars as the result of a forceps delivery, he experienced a bout with spinal tuberculosis that caused curvature of his spine and short stature. He is probably best known for the epigram "war is the health of the state" and for a series of sharply readable essays he wrote in 1917 that dissected war-time conformity and made him a model of the dissenting intellectual before he died in 1918 at 32. His essay "The Handicapped—By One of Them," published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1911, remains an influential text in disability studies. Likewise, his 1916 "Trans-National America," in which he articulated a "cosmopolitan" ideal that would draw on different ethnic traditions in the service of a democratic culture shared by Americans of varied backgrounds, stands at the center of contemporary debates about the implications of this country's ethnic......

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