The Unabomber: A Genius Against the Industrial Age

Ted Kaczynski, a former mathematics prodigy and Harvard graduate with an IQ of 167, abandoned a promising academic career to live as a recluse in Montana, where he launched a deadly 17-year mail bombing campaign targeting universities and airlines to protest industrial technology. Known as the "Unabomber," he forced major newspapers to publish his 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto, which ultimately led to his capture in 1996 after his brother, David, recognized the writing style and alerted the FBI. Kaczynski was sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes, which killed three people and injured dozens, with some sources suggesting his radicalization may have stemmed from a traumatic psychological control experiment he endured while a student at Harvard.