Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

posted by jack at 18:39 CET in / politics

This link was passed to me by James:

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591

This is a "top ten" (plus lots of "honorable mentions") compiled by a bunch of conservervate, errr, "thinkers".

The list includes some obvious punching bags for the right (The Communist Manifesto), at least one obvious punching bag for most everyone (Mein Kampf), but a bunch of titles that I'm frankly surprised that any group of intelligent people, including plenty of college professors, can consider to be "harmful". For example:

• The Kinsey Report
• John Dewey's Democracy and Education
• John Stuart Mills' On Liberty
• Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed

Sure, if I were a conservative I would probably consider most of these works uncomfortable, or unpleasant, but harmful? How detached from reality does one need to be, to consider "Unsafe at Any Speed" harmful?