Sean Carrol at Preposterous Universe:
Brad DeLong (after artfully denying that he would ever read Wonkette) points to an enlightening list at Human Events Online — the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. As voted on by leading conservative thinkers!
- The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels
- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
- Quotations from Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong
- The Kinsey Report, Alfred Kinsey
- Democracy and Education, John Dewey
- Das Kapital, Karl Marx
- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
- The Course of Positive Philosophy, August Comte
- Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
- General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes
I love it. Mein Kampf snuggling right up there with The Feminine Mystique and The General Theory. (Because it’s Keynes, you know, who is responsible for our huge budget deficit. Those damned liberals, always running budget deficits.)
But the list of runners-up is where it really gets good…
More here.