Conservatives’ “Ten Most Harmful Books”
Published 6/1/05
A group of conservative “scholars and public policy leaders” has created a list of the “Ten Most Harmful Books” of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Topping the list, not surprisingly, is Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, followed by Mein Kampf.
The list actually has 30 titles — 20 are honorable mentions.
Other “most harmful books,” apparently, are
- The Kinsey Report
- John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
- Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” (sic; correct title is The Origin of Species)
- Darwin’s “Descent of Man” (sic; correct title is The Descent of Man)
- Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed, and
- Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
No word on whether the group is asking for these books to be banned or burned.
jason says:
I love the misguided nature of this list. The first three condemn books instead of the murderous people associated with them, and the fourth is Kinsey. So, to summarize the top four most harmful things in the 19th and 20th century, according to conservatives: mass murder, mass murder, mass murder, sexual understanding. Sounds like their M.O.