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...Department of Homeland Security been around eight years ago, its efforts would most likely have been devoted to rooting out the operations of Theodore Kaczynski ’62, also known as the Unabomber. Over the course of 17 years—from his first attack in 1978 to his last in 1995—Kaczynski carried out a systematic terror campaign, sending letter bombs to prominent members of higher education institutions that resulted in three deaths and 23 injuries...
...Kaczynski inhabited a dual image in the public eye: some dismissed him as a paranoid schizophrenic while others hailed his writings as evidence of a brilliant, messianic anti-technology crusader. It is well known that he attended Harvard University—but absent from the mid-90s news was that Harvard may have created the Unabomber...
Such is the premise of Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of An American Terrorist by Alston S. Chase ’57, who contends that the college’s General Education Program, the precursor to today’s Core Curriculum, may have pushed Kaczynski into his bombing campaign. The Core has been long-reviled some students, but could its 1950s predecessor have moulded one of the most disaffected and violent minds in recent memory? Chase has long answered an emphatic “yes,” having initially floated his theory in a June 2000 Atlantic...
Though the premise is sensational, Chase treats Kaczynski’s psyche and the college’s social and educational environment with great consideration. Kaczynski was not the marginalized loner or the intellectual lunatic as portrayed by the popular media during his 1998 trial, but rather a sensitive, multi-talented man with a highly gifted mind...
...should come as no great surprise to anyone that the U.S. has been unable to catch Osama bin Laden [WORLD, Nov. 25]. It took 17 years to catch the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski; 23 and 27 years, respectively, to catch Kathleen Soliah and James Kilgore of the Symbionese Liberation Army; and for six years and counting, Eric Rudolph, the alleged '96 Atlanta Olympics bomber, has been at large, happily grilling venison burgers deep in the backwoods of our own backyard. Stephen Phillips Narberth...