The 1970 Wisconsin math building bombing marked the self-destructive climax of sixties radicalism

Evidence

Despite its sympathy for earlier, less violent phases of the movement, this narrative focuses primarily on the deluded destructiveness of the movement’s final violent phase. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 1097

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to chapter 14’s claim that sixties radicalism destroyed itself in the late sixties—the bombing as a concrete case study of that self-implosion. — connects to: Sixties radical thought was still committed to totalized utopian master narratives — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 669; Unrestricted market hunting nearly extirpated the upland plover from Wisconsin farms — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 137
• SHARE: The target of the bombing, the Army Mathematics Research Center, is an eerie and specific fact certain to interest a mathematician friend.