"The story of Kaczynski is a prism through which we can view recent American social, political, and intellectual history.... More and more people are becoming fearful about the direction in which the modern, secular nation state is going. At the core of that concern about modernism is an ethical crisis. The message that the modern world carries is that we have no absolute standard on which to make moral judgments. The bin Ladens of the world and the Kaczynskis of the world are reacting against that. Much of the terrorism in the world today, I think, represents a revolt against modernism." Alston Chase, author of Harvard and the Unabomber, in The Atlantic.