Luigi Mangione's senseless debt to the Unabomber

The lesson he drew from Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto

In May 1996, the New York Times and the Washington Post did something they had never done before: They collaborated to publish a 35,000 word “manifesto” by an anonymous author, one only identified by the initials FC.

In the text, he railed against the impact of technology on society, excoriated “leftists” and echoed Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s idealized visi…