Unabomber Among my husband' souvenirs from graduate school is a memo from Franco Modigliani, who has since won the Nobel prize in economics, telling students and colleagues of a friend's murder by the Red Brigades for the crime of being an economist. It is a reminder that the contemplative life is not without its enemies or its risks. The Unabomber's manifesto is a similar reminder. Its 35,000 words bought a place in The Washington Post with the blood of scholars.
Nature is good.
Villages were virtuous. Cities are abominations. Life would be better without refrigeration. Its ancestors include a long line of intellectuals, from John Ruskin to the Southern Agrarians to Jeremy Rifkin and Kirkpatrick Sale. A murderer for a monstrous cause.