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

This is scary. The neocons really do want to set back the clock to the Dark Ages.

HUMAN EVENTS 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.

The list:

1. The Communist Manifesto -- Authors: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
2. Mein Kampf -- Author: Adolf Hitler
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao -- Author: Mao Zedong
4. The Kinsey Report -- Author: Alfred Kinsey
5. Democracy and Education -- Author: John Dewey
6. Das Kapital -- Author: Karl Marx
7. The Feminine Mystique -- Author: Betty Friedan
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy -- Author: Auguste Comte
9. Beyond Good and Evil -- Author: Freidrich Nietzsche
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Mone -- Author: John Maynard Keynes

These books won votes from two or more judges:

The Population Bomb -- Paul Ehrlich
What Is To Be Done -- V.I. Lenin
Authoritarian Personality -- Theodor
Adorno On Liberty -- John Stuart Mill
Beyond Freedom and Dignity -- B.F. Skinner
Reflections on Violence -- Georges Sorel
The Promise of American Life -- Herbert Croly
Origin of the Species -- Charles Darwin
Madness and Civilization -- Michel Foucault
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization -- Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Coming of Age in Samoa -- Margaret Mead
Unsafe at Any Speed -- Ralph Nader
Second Sex -- Simone de Beauvoir
Prison Notebooks -- Antonio Gramsci
Silent Spring -- Rachel Carson
Wretched of the Earth -- Frantz Fanon
Introduction to Psychoanalysis -- Sigmund Freud
The Greening of America -- Charles Reich
The Limits to Growth -- Club of Rome
Descent of Man -- Charles Darwin

In other words, any volume that encourages critical thinking. Frightening look into the mindset of this group. Take a look at the "judges." I wish they had also asked them to vote on the ten most valuable books but then again, maybe it's better not to know. It would probably give me nightmares.