By way of a colleague in the program, conservative rag Human Events lists their choices for the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th & 20th Centuries (because remember, folks — reading & thinking are dangerous.) The usual rogues’ gallery — Marx, Hitler, Mao — are up front, as you might expect, but then things get kooky. Including Darwin is medieval enough, but Betty Friedan and Rachel Carson? You must be joking. (Well, at least it’s good to see the right-wing fringe still running scared from progressives like John Dewey and Herbert Croly.)
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How about starting an alternative list of the most harmful books?
Ayn Rand– The Fountainhead
F.A. Hayek– The Road to Serfdom
Ludwig von Mises– Human Action
Milton Friedman– Capitalism and Freedom
Willam Buckley– God and Man at Yale
John A. Stormer– None Dare Call It Treason
Hal Lindsay– The Late Great Planet Earth
Lahaye and Jenkins– Left Behind
Ronald Reagan– Where’s the Rest of Me
Andrew MacDonald– The Turner Diaires (Just to be totally unfair.)
That’s a pretty solid start. I wouldn’t call a lot of these “harmful” so much as “lousy,” though. God and Man at Yale, for example, reads like a whiny vanity project by a precocious undergrad, which of course it is.
Buckley, the Elizabeth Wurtzel of his day. 😉