Luigi Mangione: Should U.S. Ban Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto? [Video]

A Goodreads profile belonging to Luigi Mangione, the suspect arrested in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, reviewed approvingly the notorious radical manifesto belonging to the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski.

Kaczynski killed three people and injured a further 23 in a spate of ideologically-motivated bombings from the 1970s to the 1990s until he was eventually caught. He died in prison in 2023 aged 81.

His manifesto has long been popular among extreme fringes, but gained renewed attention online in recent years, especially among younger generations since his death.

If a link is proven, Mangione’s case would not be the first with a connection to Kaczynski’s ideas.

For example, the Norweigan far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik who killed 93 people in a politically-motived attack on a left-wing youth group plagiarized the Unabomber’s manifesto in his own writings.

So, is the Unabomber’s manifesto too dangerous to exist freely? Should it face restrictions, perhaps even a ban in the U.S. because of …