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On the Unabomber

On May 5, 1998, Theodore John Kaczynski was sentenced to life in prison for violating federal firearms, explosives, and postal laws. Three people had been killed and twenty-nine injured by the "Unabomber" crimes, and new levels of security precautions became part of life in the US. Every aspect of this episode—the politics, the arrest, the evidence, and the defendant's sanity—depends on Kaczynski's writings. Academia has ignored the subject, implying that sending bombs to universities is an effective way of deterring intellectuals from analyzing terrorism.¹ The most important document, Industrial Society and Its Future (deftly renamed "The Unabomber Manifesto" by the...