Obituaries: Terrorist, Author and Tina

The Unabomber, Cormac McCarthy, Tina Turner

Death of a Religious Terrorist

The Unabomber died in prison. The anti-capitalist Unabomber can be remembered as a monster who was a religious terrorist; he is the embodiment of the nihilistic climax of the 20th century’s decline and a prelude to the West’s impending doom.

Death of a Writer

Dystopian writer Cormac McCarthy has also died. The author of No Country for Old Men, The Road, the suicide-themed The Sunset Limited, The Passenger and other fiction left a legacy of writing which this reader may want to explore.

After seeing the 2009 adaptation of his 2006 Alfred Knopf novel The Road, which I reviewed here (paid subscribers can listen to the podcast episode), I want to read more of what McCarthy wrote. He joined the United States Air Force, lived in Spain, El Paso, Texas, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Alaska, married and divorced, fathered children and was fu…