“In the fall of 1958 Theodore Kaczynski, a brilliant but vulnerable boy of sixteen, entered Harvard College. There he encountered a prevailing intellectual atmosphere of anti-technological despair. There, also, he was deceived into subjecting himself to a series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments — experiments that may have confirmed his still-forming belief in the evil of science. Was the Unabomber born at Harvard?” Alston Chase has turned this 2000 article into a book: Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist —Harvard and the Making of the UnabomberAtlantic)
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