What Would the Unabomber Think of Luigi Mangione?

When journalist John H. Richardson heard about the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he says his mind went straight to the Unabomber , Ted Kaczynski . And when Richardson found out that Luigi Mangione , the prime suspect, had allegedly reviewed Kaczynski’s manifesto, he was transported back to the reporting he’d done on Kaczynski’s current followers. The mathematics prodigy and domestic terrorist famously published a manifesto railing about how dependent society has become on technology and predicting how much worse it would get. Published in 1995, Kaczynski writes about the trouble society would get into if computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do things better than human beings can. Richardson wrote about the Kaczynski’s millennial an