Human Events's "Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries"

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HUMANEVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.

  1. 1.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx
  2. 2.
    Mein Kampf
    by Adolf Hitler
  3. 3.
    Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
    by Mao Tse-Tung
  4. 4.
    Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
    by Alfred Charles Kinsey
  5. 5.
    Democracy And Education
    by John Dewey
  7. 7.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan
  8. 8.
    Introduction to Positive Philosophy
    by Auguste Comte
  9. 9.
    Beyond Good and Evil
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. 11.
    The Population Bomb
    by Paul R. Ehrlich
  12. 12.
    What Is to Be Done?
    by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
  13. 13.
    ?
    The Authoritarian Personality (Studies in Prejudice)
    by Theodor W. Adorno
  14. 14.
    On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Stuart Mill
  15. 15.
    Beyond Freedom & Dignity
    by B. F. Skinner
  16. 16.
    The Promise of American Life
    by Herbert Croly
  17. 17.
    The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Charles Darwin
  20. 20.
    ?
    Soviet communism: A new civilization?
    by Sidney Webb
  22. 22.
    ?
    Unsafe at Any Speed
    by Ralph Nader
  23. 23.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone de Beauvoir
  24. 24.
    Prison Notebooks, Volume 1
    by Antonio Gramsci
  25. 25.
    Prison Notebooks, Volume 2
    by Antonio Gramsci
  26. 26.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  27. 27.
    The Wretched of the Earth
    by Frantz Fanon
  28. 28.
    A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
    by Sigmund Freud
  29. 29.
    The Greening of America
    by charles a. reich
  31. 31.
    The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series)
    by Charles Darwin
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Created by starlagurl on Apr 17, 2006.
 

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MestnyiGeroi

Untitled — 2 years ago

A hilarious list, the small-minded, obscurantist, and just plain ignorant mindset behind which reveals the far more “dangerous” qualities lurking in the minds of many conservatives.

Jun 18, 01:06PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

mizoguchi

Untitled — 3 years ago

Dumb dumb dumb- no doubt Darwin is too dangerous cos creationism has more scientific evidence? Though in fact evolution by natural selection was Alfred Russel Wallace’s theory too

Jul 01, 01:17PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

wickedraven

this is so stupid — 4 years ago

instead of adding books of nietszche and freud you should add bible,koran, pentateuch and etc!! so dumb and foolish!

Jun 29, 02:15AM | 2 comments | Reply to this

Michael Gorsuch

Where's the Bible? — 5 years ago

Please add the Christian Bible to this list… and the Koran… and the Torah…

Nov 25, 06:44PM | 4 comments | Reply to this

Elderbear is subverting the dominant paradigm.

What Maggiem Said ... — 5 years ago

Truly a dumb list!!!

I can understand that some would find the writings of Marx to contain ideas that make them uncomfortable … but to consider John Stuart Mill as somebody whose ideas have damaged the world? I guess liberty is one of those “dangerous” ideas that needs to be suppressed.

Nov 04, 12:23AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

starlagurl

Did you read the intro? — 6 years ago

“a panel of 15 CONSERVATIVE scholars”

May 04, 09:12PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

maggiem

Untitled — 6 years ago

Yeah, fuck Silent Spring! I hated nature anyway! Screw Unsafe at Any Speed! I liked it much better when companies could release shoddy unsafe products!

Seriously, this has got to be the dumbest list.

May 01, 10:49AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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