it would be laughable if....ten most harmful books as seen by yer local rightwing insanity puppet

[Guest guest]

so, here is a list of the ten most *harmful* books that they got some, ahem,

scholars, to think up

sad really that they basically shove books like silent spring in with Mein

Kampf..also tellin that Mein Kampf didn't even make Number 1 on the list...

certainly tellin of a certain mindset...

i'm sure on their fave books, a certain someone would have " the hungry little

caterpillar " and " my pet goat "

 

 

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

May 31, 2005

 

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.

 

1. The Communist Manifesto

Authors: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels

Publication date: 1848

Score: 74

Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820,

respectively, were the intellectual godfathers of communism.

Engels was the original limousine leftist: A wealthy textile

heir, he financed Marx for much of his life. In 1848, the

two co-authored The Communist Manifesto as a platform for a

group they belonged to called the Communist League. The

Manifesto envisions history as a class struggle between

oppressed workers and oppressive owners, calling for a

workers' revolution so property, family and nation-states

can be abolished and a proletarian Utopia established. The

Evil Empire of the Soviet Union put the Manifesto into practice.

 

 

2. Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

Publication date: 1925-26

Score: 41

Summary: Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was initially published in

two parts in 1925 and 1926 after Hitler was imprisoned for

leading Nazi Brown Shirts in the so-called " Beer Hall

Putsch " that tried to overthrow the Bavarian government.

Here Hitler explained his racist, anti-Semitic vision for

Germany, laying out a Nazi program pointing directly to

World War II and the Holocaust. He envisioned the mass

murder of Jews, and a war against France to precede a war

against Russia to carve out " lebensraum " ( " living room " ) for

Germans in Eastern Europe. The book was originally ignored.

But not after Hitler rose to power. According to the Simon

Wiesenthal Center, there were 10 million copies in

circulation by 1945.

 

3. Quotations from Chairman Mao

Author: Mao Zedong

Publication date: 1966

Score: 38

Summary: Mao, who died in 1976, was the leader of the Red

Army in the fight for control of China against the

anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai-shek before, during and

after World War II. Victorious, in 1949, he founded the

People's Republic of China, enslaving the world's most

populous nation in communism. In 1966, he published

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, otherwise known as The

Little Red Book, as a tool in the " Cultural Revolution " he

launched to push the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese

society back in his ideological direction. Aided by

compulsory distribution in China, billions were printed.

Western leftists were enamored with its Marxist

anti-Americanism. " It is the task of the people of the whole

world to put an end to the aggression and oppression

perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S.

imperialism, " wrote Mao.

 

4. The Kinsey Report

Author: Alfred Kinsey

Publication date: 1948

Score: 37

Summary: Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University

who, in 1948, published a study called Sexual Behavior in

the Human Male, commonly known as The Kinsey Report. Five

years later, he published Sexual Behavior in the Human

Female. The reports were designed to give a scientific gloss

to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy. " Kinsey's

initial report, released in 1948 . . . stunned the nation by

saying that American men were so sexually wild that 95% of

them could be accused of some kind of sexual offense under

1940s laws, " the Washington Times reported last year when a

movie on Kinsey was released. " The report included reports

of sexual activity by boys--even babies--and said that 37%

of adult males had had at least one homosexual experience. .

.. . The 1953 book also included reports of sexual activity

involving girls younger than age 4, and suggested that sex

between adults and children could be beneficial. "

 

5. Democracy and Education

Author: John Dewey

Publication date: 1916

Score: 36

Summary: John Dewey, who lived from 1859 until 1952, was a

" progressive " philosopher and leading advocate for secular

humanism in American life, who taught at the University of

Chicago and at Columbia. He signed the Humanist Manifesto

and rejected traditional religion and moral absolutes. In

Democracy and Education, in pompous and opaque prose, he

disparaged schooling that focused on traditional character

development and endowing children with hard knowledge, and

encouraged the teaching of thinking " skills " instead. His

views had great influence on the direction of American

education--particularly in public schools--and helped

nurture the Clinton generation.

 

6. Das Kapital

Author: Karl Marx

Publication date: 1867-1894

Score: 31

Summary: Marx died after publishing a first volume of this

massive book, after which his benefactor Engels edited and

published two additional volumes that Marx had drafted. Das

Kapital forces the round peg of capitalism into the square

hole of Marx's materialistic theory of history, portraying

capitalism as an ugly phase in the development of human

society in which capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit

labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to earn the

greatest possible profits. Marx theorized that the

inevitable eventual outcome would be global proletarian

revolution. He could not have predicted 21st Century

America: a free, affluent society based on capitalism and

representative government that people the world over envy

and seek to emulate.

 

7. The Feminine Mystique

Author: Betty Friedan

Publication date: 1963

Score: 30

Summary: In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, born in

1921, disparaged traditional stay-at-home motherhood as life

in " a comfortable concentration camp " --a role that degraded

women and denied them true fulfillment in life. She later

became founding president of the National Organization for

Women. Her original vocation, tellingly, was not

stay-at-home motherhood but left-wing journalism. As David

Horowitz wrote in a review for Salon.com of Betty Friedan

and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz

(no relation to David): The author documents that " Friedan

was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a

Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of

America's Cold War fifth column and for a time even the

lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb

projects in Berkeley's radiation lab with J. Robert

Oppenheimer. "

 

8. The Course of Positive Philosophy

Author: Auguste Comte

Publication date: 1830-1842

Score: 28

Summary: Comte, the product of a royalist Catholic family

that survived the French Revolution, turned his back on his

political and cultural heritage, announcing as a teenager,

" I have naturally ceased to believe in God. " Later, in the

six volumes of The Course of Positive Philosophy, he coined

the term " sociology. " He did so while theorizing that the

human mind had developed beyond " theology " (a belief that

there is a God who governs the universe), through

" metaphysics " (in this case defined as the French

revolutionaries' reliance on abstract assertions of " rights "

without a God), to " positivism, " in which man alone, through

scientific observation, could determine the way things ought

to be.

 

9. Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Freidrich Nietzsche

Publication date: 1886

Score: 28

Summary: An oft-scribbled bit of college-campus graffiti

says: " 'God is dead'--Nietzsche " followed by " 'Nietzsche is

dead'--God. " Nietzsche's profession that " God is dead "

appeared in his 1882 book, The Gay Science, but under-girded

the basic theme of Beyond Good and Evil, which was published

four years later. Here Nietzsche argued that men are driven

by an amoral " Will to Power, " and that superior men will

sweep aside religiously inspired moral rules, which he

deemed as artificial as any other moral rules, to craft

whatever rules would help them dominate the world around

them. " Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury,

overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression,

severity, imposition of one's own forms, incorporation and,

at the least and mildest, exploitation, " he wrote. The Nazis

loved Nietzsche.

[The Nazis banned unabridged editions of Nietzsche's books

because you had to wrench phrases out of context to

misinterpret them to support Nazism. Nietzsche hated statism

and anti-Semitism.]

 

10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Author: John Maynard Keynes

Publication date: 1936

Score: 23

Summary: Keynes was a member of the British elite--educated

at Eton and Cambridge--who as a liberal Cambridge economics

professor wrote General Theory of Employment, Interest and

Money in the midst of the Great Depression. The book is a

recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business

cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs,

he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing

and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted

the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a

$2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.

 

Honorable Mention

 

These books won votes from two or more judges:

 

The Population Bomb

by Paul Ehrlich

Score: 22

 

What Is To Be Done

by V.I. Lenin

Score: 20

 

Authoritarian Personality

by Theodor Adorno

Score: 19

 

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

Score: 18

(oh, like that isn't a telling entry)

 

Beyond Freedom and Dignity

by B.F. Skinner

Score: 18

 

Reflections on Violence

by Georges Sorel

Score: 18

 

The Promise of American Life

by Herbert Croly

Score: 17

 

Origin of the Species

by Charles Darwin

Score: 17

 

 

Madness and Civilization

by Michel Foucault

Score: 12

 

Soviet Communism: A New Civilization

by Sidney and Beatrice Webb

Score: 12

 

Coming of Age in Samoa

by Margaret Mead

Score: 11

 

Unsafe at Any Speed

by Ralph Nader

Score: 11

 

Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir

Score: 10

 

Prison Notebooks

by Antonio Gramsci

Score: 10

 

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

Score: 9

 

Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

Score: 9

 

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud

Score: 9

 

The Greening of America

by Charles Reich

Score: 9

 

The Limits to Growth

by Club of Rome

Score: 4

 

Descent of Man

by Charles Darwin

Score: 2

 

The Judges

 

These 15 scholars and public policy leaders served as judges

in selecting the Ten Most Harmful Books.

 

Arnold Beichman

Research Fellow

Hoover Institution

 

Prof. Brad Birzer

Hillsdale College

 

Harry Crocker

Vice President & Executive Editor

Regnery Publishing, Inc.

 

Prof. Marshall DeRosa

Florida Atlantic University

 

Dr. Don Devine

Second Vice Chairman

American Conservative Union

 

Prof. Robert George

Princeton University

 

Prof. Paul Gottfried

Elizabethtown College

 

Prof. William Anthony Hay

Mississippi State University

 

Herb London

President

Hudson Institute

 

Prof. Mark Malvasi

Randolph-Macon College

 

Douglas Minson

Associate Rector

The Witherspoon Fellowships

 

Prof. Mark Molesky

Seton Hall University

 

Prof. Stephen Presser

Northwestern University

 

Phyllis Schlafly

President

Eagle Forum

 

Fred Smith

President

Competitive Enterprise Institute

 

 

Those who control the past, control the future; Those who control the future,

control the present; Those who control the present, control the past.^

[Guest guest]

Ah those conservative scholars, bless them. Can they ask some liberal ones next?

Wot you got against the hungry catipillar?

 

The Valley Vegan....

fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:

so, here is a list of the ten most *harmful* books that they got some, ahem, scholars, to think upsad really that they basically shove books like silent spring in with Mein Kampf..also tellin that Mein Kampf didn't even make Number 1 on the list...certainly tellin of a certain mindset...i'm sure on their fave books, a certain someone would have "the hungry little caterpillar" and "my pet goat"Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th CenturiesMay 31, 2005HUMAN 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.1. The Communist ManifestoAuthors: Karl Marx and Freidrich EngelsPublication date: 1848Score: 74Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820, respectively, were the intellectual godfathers of communism. Engels was the original limousine leftist: A wealthy textile heir, he financed Marx for much of his life. In 1848, the two co-authored The Communist Manifesto as a platform for a group they belonged to called the Communist League. The Manifesto envisions history as a class struggle between oppressed workers and oppressive owners, calling for a workers' revolution so property, family and nation-states can be abolished and a proletarian Utopia established. The Evil Empire of the Soviet Union put the Manifesto into practice.2. Mein

KampfAuthor: Adolf HitlerPublication date: 1925-26Score: 41Summary: Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was initially published in two parts in 1925 and 1926 after Hitler was imprisoned for leading Nazi Brown Shirts in the so-called "Beer Hall Putsch" that tried to overthrow the Bavarian government. Here Hitler explained his racist, anti-Semitic vision for Germany, laying out a Nazi program pointing directly to World War II and the Holocaust. He envisioned the mass murder of Jews, and a war against France to precede a war against Russia to carve out "lebensraum" ("living room") forGermans in Eastern Europe. The book was originally ignored. But not after Hitler rose to power. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, there were 10 million copies in circulation by 1945.3. Quotations from Chairman MaoAuthor: Mao ZedongPublication date: 1966Score: 38Summary: Mao, who died in 1976, was the leader of the Red

Army in the fight for control of China against the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai-shek before, during and after World War II. Victorious, in 1949, he founded the People's Republic of China, enslaving the world's most populous nation in communism. In 1966, he published Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, otherwise known as The Little Red Book, as a tool in the "Cultural Revolution" he launched to push the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese society back in his ideological direction. Aided by compulsory distribution in China, billions were printed. Western leftists were enamored with its Marxist anti-Americanism. "It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism," wrote Mao.4. The Kinsey ReportAuthor: Alfred KinseyPublication date: 1948Score: 37Summary: Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist at

Indiana University who, in 1948, published a study called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as The Kinsey Report. Five years later, he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. The reports were designed to give a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy. "Kinsey's initial report, released in 1948 . . . stunned the nation by saying that American men were so sexually wild that 95% of them could be accused of some kind of sexual offense under 1940s laws," the Washington Times reported last year when a movie on Kinsey was released. "The report included reports of sexual activity by boys--even babies--and said that 37% of adult males had had at least one homosexual experience. . . . The 1953 book also included reports of sexual activity involving girls younger than age 4, and suggested that sex between adults and children could be beneficial."5. Democracy and

EducationAuthor: John DeweyPublication date: 1916Score: 36Summary: John Dewey, who lived from 1859 until 1952, was a "progressive" philosopher and leading advocate for secular humanism in American life, who taught at the University of Chicago and at Columbia. He signed the Humanist Manifesto and rejected traditional religion and moral absolutes. In Democracy and Education, in pompous and opaque prose, he disparaged schooling that focused on traditional character development and endowing children with hard knowledge, and encouraged the teaching of thinking "skills" instead. His views had great influence on the direction of American education--particularly in public schools--and helped nurture the Clinton generation.6. Das KapitalAuthor: Karl MarxPublication date: 1867-1894Score: 31Summary: Marx died after publishing a first volume of this massive book, after which his benefactor Engels edited and

published two additional volumes that Marx had drafted. Das Kapital forces the round peg of capitalism into the square hole of Marx's materialistic theory of history, portraying capitalism as an ugly phase in the development of human society in which capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to earn the greatest possible profits. Marx theorized that the inevitable eventual outcome would be global proletarian revolution. He could not have predicted 21st Century America: a free, affluent society based on capitalism and representative government that people the world over envy and seek to emulate.7. The Feminine MystiqueAuthor: Betty FriedanPublication date: 1963Score: 30Summary: In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, born in 1921, disparaged traditional stay-at-home motherhood as life in "a comfortable concentration camp"--a role that degraded women and

denied them true fulfillment in life. She later became founding president of the National Organization for Women. Her original vocation, tellingly, was not stay-at-home motherhood but left-wing journalism. As David Horowitz wrote in a review for Salon.com of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz (no relation to David): The author documents that "Friedan was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America's Cold War fifth column and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects in Berkeley's radiation lab with J. Robert Oppenheimer."8. The Course of Positive PhilosophyAuthor: Auguste ComtePublication date: 1830-1842Score: 28Summary: Comte, the product of a royalist Catholic family that survived the French Revolution, turned his back on his political and cultural

heritage, announcing as a teenager, "I have naturally ceased to believe in God." Later, in the six volumes of The Course of Positive Philosophy, he coined the term "sociology." He did so while theorizing that the human mind had developed beyond "theology" (a belief that there is a God who governs the universe), through "metaphysics" (in this case defined as the French revolutionaries' reliance on abstract assertions of "rights" without a God), to "positivism," in which man alone, through scientific observation, could determine the way things ought to be.9. Beyond Good and EvilAuthor: Freidrich NietzschePublication date: 1886Score: 28Summary: An oft-scribbled bit of college-campus graffiti says: "'God is dead'--Nietzsche" followed by "'Nietzsche is dead'--God." Nietzsche's profession that "God is dead" appeared in his 1882 book, The Gay Science, but under-girded the basic theme of Beyond Good and Evil,

which was published four years later. Here Nietzsche argued that men are driven by an amoral "Will to Power," and that superior men will sweep aside religiously inspired moral rules, which he deemed as artificial as any other moral rules, to craft whatever rules would help them dominate the world around them. "Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one's own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation," he wrote. The Nazis loved Nietzsche.[The Nazis banned unabridged editions of Nietzsche's books because you had to wrench phrases out of context to misinterpret them to support Nazism. Nietzsche hated statism and anti-Semitism.]10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyAuthor: John Maynard KeynesPublication date: 1936Score: 23Summary: Keynes was a member of the British elite--educated

at Eton and Cambridge--who as a liberal Cambridge economics professor wrote General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in the midst of the Great Depression. The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.Honorable MentionThese books won votes from two or more judges:The Population Bombby Paul EhrlichScore: 22What Is To Be Doneby V.I. LeninScore: 20Authoritarian Personalityby Theodor AdornoScore: 19On Libertyby John Stuart MillScore: 18(oh, like that isn't a telling entry)Beyond Freedom and Dignityby B.F. SkinnerScore:

18Reflections on Violenceby Georges SorelScore: 18The Promise of American Lifeby Herbert CrolyScore: 17Origin of the Speciesby Charles DarwinScore: 17Madness and Civilizationby Michel FoucaultScore: 12Soviet Communism: A New Civilizationby Sidney and Beatrice WebbScore: 12Coming of Age in Samoaby Margaret MeadScore: 11Unsafe at Any Speedby Ralph NaderScore: 11Second Sexby Simone de BeauvoirScore: 10Prison Notebooksby Antonio GramsciScore: 10Silent Springby Rachel CarsonScore: 9Wretched of the Earthby Frantz FanonScore: 9Introduction to Psychoanalysisby Sigmund FreudScore: 9The Greening of Americaby Charles ReichScore: 9The Limits to Growthby Club of RomeScore: 4Descent of Manby Charles DarwinScore: 2The JudgesThese 15 scholars

and public policy leaders served as judges in selecting the Ten Most Harmful Books.Arnold BeichmanResearch FellowHoover InstitutionProf. Brad BirzerHillsdale CollegeHarry CrockerVice President & Executive EditorRegnery Publishing, Inc.Prof. Marshall DeRosaFlorida Atlantic UniversityDr. Don DevineSecond Vice ChairmanAmerican Conservative UnionProf. Robert GeorgePrinceton UniversityProf. Paul GottfriedElizabethtown CollegeProf. William Anthony HayMississippi State UniversityHerb LondonPresidentHudson InstituteProf. Mark MalvasiRandolph-Macon CollegeDouglas MinsonAssociate RectorThe Witherspoon FellowshipsProf. Mark MoleskySeton Hall UniversityProf. Stephen PresserNorthwestern UniversityPhyllis SchlaflyPresidentEagle ForumFred SmithPresidentCompetitive Enterprise

InstituteThose who control the past, control the future; Those who control the future, control the present; Those who control the present, control the past.^

[Guest guest]

no, i'm afraid all the others have been sent away fer reNeducation(sorry..been awhile since we've had a simpsons reference) peter hurd Jun 4, 2005 7:18 AM Re: it would be laughable if....ten most harmful books as seen by yer local rightwing insanity puppet

Ah those conservative scholars, bless them. Can they ask some liberal ones next?

Wot you got against the hungry catipillar?

 

The Valley Vegan....

fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:

so, here is a list of the ten most *harmful* books that they got some, ahem, scholars, to think upsad really that they basically shove books like silent spring in with Mein Kampf..also tellin that Mein Kampf didn't even make Number 1 on the list...certainly tellin of a certain mindset...i'm sure on their fave books, a certain someone would have "the hungry little caterpillar" and "my pet goat"Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th CenturiesMay 31, 2005HUMAN 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.1. The Communist ManifestoAuthors: Karl Marx and Freidrich EngelsPublication date: 1848Score: 74Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820, respectively, were the intellectual godfathers of communism. Engels was the original limousine leftist: A wealthy textile heir, he financed Marx for much of his life. In 1848, the two co-authored The Communist Manifesto as a platform for a group they belonged to called the Communist League. The Manifesto envisions history as a class struggle between oppressed workers and oppressive owners, calling for a workers' revolution so property, family and nation-states can be abolished and a proletarian Utopia established. The Evil Empire of the Soviet Union put the Manifesto into practice.2. Mein KampfAuthor: Adolf HitlerPublication date: 1925-26Score: 41Summary: Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was initially published in two parts in 1925 and 1926 after Hitler was imprisoned for leading Nazi Brown Shirts in the so-called "Beer Hall Putsch" that tried to overthrow the Bavarian government. Here Hitler explained his racist, anti-Semitic vision for Germany, laying out a Nazi program pointing directly to World War II and the Holocaust. He envisioned the mass murder of Jews, and a war against France to precede a war against Russia to carve out "lebensraum" ("living room") forGermans in Eastern Europe. The book was originally ignored. But not after Hitler rose to power. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, there were 10 million copies in circulation by 1945.3. Quotations from Chairman MaoAuthor: Mao ZedongPublication date: 1966Score: 38Summary: Mao, who died in 1976, was the leader of the Red Army in the fight for control of China against the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai-shek before, during and after World War II. Victorious, in 1949, he founded the People's Republic of China, enslaving the world's most populous nation in communism. In 1966, he published Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, otherwise known as The Little Red Book, as a tool in the "Cultural Revolution" he launched to push the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese society back in his ideological direction. Aided by compulsory distribution in China, billions were printed. Western leftists were enamored with its Marxist anti-Americanism. "It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism," wrote Mao.4. The Kinsey ReportAuthor: Alfred KinseyPublication date: 1948Score: 37Summary: Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University who, in 1948, published a study called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as The Kinsey Report. Five years later, he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. The reports were designed to give a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy. "Kinsey's initial report, released in 1948 . . . stunned the nation by saying that American men were so sexually wild that 95% of them could be accused of some kind of sexual offense under 1940s laws," the Washington Times reported last year when a movie on Kinsey was released. "The report included reports of sexual activity by boys--even babies--and said that 37% of adult males had had at least one homosexual experience. . . . The 1953 book also included reports of sexual activity involving girls younger than age 4, and suggested that sex between adults and children could be beneficial."5. Democracy and EducationAuthor: John DeweyPublication date: 1916Score: 36Summary: John Dewey, who lived from 1859 until 1952, was a "progressive" philosopher and leading advocate for secular humanism in American life, who taught at the University of Chicago and at Columbia. He signed the Humanist Manifesto and rejected traditional religion and moral absolutes. In Democracy and Education, in pompous and opaque prose, he disparaged schooling that focused on traditional character development and endowing children with hard knowledge, and encouraged the teaching of thinking "skills" instead. His views had great influence on the direction of American education--particularly in public schools--and helped nurture the Clinton generation.6. Das KapitalAuthor: Karl MarxPublication date: 1867-1894Score: 31Summary: Marx died after publishing a first volume of this massive book, after which his benefactor Engels edited and published two additional volumes that Marx had drafted. Das Kapital forces the round peg of capitalism into the square hole of Marx's materialistic theory of history, portraying capitalism as an ugly phase in the development of human society in which capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to earn the greatest possible profits. Marx theorized that the inevitable eventual outcome would be global proletarian revolution. He could not have predicted 21st Century America: a free, affluent society based on capitalism and representative government that people the world over envy and seek to emulate.7. The Feminine MystiqueAuthor: Betty FriedanPublication date: 1963Score: 30Summary: In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, born in 1921, disparaged traditional stay-at-home motherhood as life in "a comfortable concentration camp"--a role that degraded women and denied them true fulfillment in life. She later became founding president of the National Organization for Women. Her original vocation, tellingly, was not stay-at-home motherhood but left-wing journalism. As David Horowitz wrote in a review for Salon.com of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz (no relation to David): The author documents that "Friedan was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America's Cold War fifth column and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects in Berkeley's radiation lab with J. Robert Oppenheimer."8. The Course of Positive PhilosophyAuthor: Auguste ComtePublication date: 1830-1842Score: 28Summary: Comte, the product of a royalist Catholic family that survived the French Revolution, turned his back on his political and cultural heritage, announcing as a teenager, "I have naturally ceased to believe in God." Later, in the six volumes of The Course of Positive Philosophy, he coined the term "sociology." He did so while theorizing that the human mind had developed beyond "theology" (a belief that there is a God who governs the universe), through "metaphysics" (in this case defined as the French revolutionaries' reliance on abstract assertions of "rights" without a God), to "positivism," in which man alone, through scientific observation, could determine the way things ought to be.9. Beyond Good and EvilAuthor: Freidrich NietzschePublication date: 1886Score: 28Summary: An oft-scribbled bit of college-campus graffiti says: "'God is dead'--Nietzsche" followed by "'Nietzsche is dead'--God." Nietzsche's profession that "God is dead" appeared in his 1882 book, The Gay Science, but under-girded the basic theme of Beyond Good and Evil, which was published four years later. Here Nietzsche argued that men are driven by an amoral "Will to Power," and that superior men will sweep aside religiously inspired moral rules, which he deemed as artificial as any other moral rules, to craft whatever rules would help them dominate the world around them. "Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one's own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation," he wrote. The Nazis loved Nietzsche.[The Nazis banned unabridged editions of Nietzsche's books because you had to wrench phrases out of context to misinterpret them to support Nazism. Nietzsche hated statism and anti-Semitism.]10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyAuthor: John Maynard KeynesPublication date: 1936Score: 23Summary: Keynes was a member of the British elite--educated at Eton and Cambridge--who as a liberal Cambridge economics professor wrote General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in the midst of the Great Depression. The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.Honorable MentionThese books won votes from two or more judges:The Population Bombby Paul EhrlichScore: 22What Is To Be Doneby V.I. LeninScore: 20Authoritarian Personalityby Theodor AdornoScore: 19On Libertyby John Stuart MillScore: 18(oh, like that isn't a telling entry)Beyond Freedom and Dignityby B.F. SkinnerScore: 18Reflections on Violenceby Georges SorelScore: 18The Promise of American Lifeby Herbert CrolyScore: 17Origin of the Speciesby Charles DarwinScore: 17Madness and Civilizationby Michel FoucaultScore: 12Soviet Communism: A New Civilizationby Sidney and Beatrice WebbScore: 12Coming of Age in Samoaby Margaret MeadScore: 11Unsafe at Any Speedby Ralph NaderScore: 11Second Sexby Simone de BeauvoirScore: 10Prison Notebooksby Antonio GramsciScore: 10Silent Springby Rachel CarsonScore: 9Wretched of the Earthby Frantz FanonScore: 9Introduction to Psychoanalysisby Sigmund FreudScore: 9The Greening of Americaby Charles ReichScore: 9The Limits to Growthby Club of RomeScore: 4Descent of Manby Charles DarwinScore: 2The JudgesThese 15 scholars and public policy leaders served as judges in selecting the Ten Most Harmful Books.Arnold BeichmanResearch FellowHoover InstitutionProf. Brad BirzerHillsdale CollegeHarry CrockerVice President & Executive EditorRegnery Publishing, Inc.Prof. Marshall DeRosaFlorida Atlantic UniversityDr. Don DevineSecond Vice ChairmanAmerican Conservative UnionProf. Robert GeorgePrinceton UniversityProf. Paul GottfriedElizabethtown CollegeProf. William Anthony HayMississippi State UniversityHerb LondonPresidentHudson InstituteProf. Mark MalvasiRandolph-Macon CollegeDouglas MinsonAssociate RectorThe Witherspoon FellowshipsProf. Mark MoleskySeton Hall UniversityProf. Stephen PresserNorthwestern UniversityPhyllis SchlaflyPresidentEagle ForumFred SmithPresidentCompetitive Enterprise InstituteThose who control the past, control the future; Those who control the future, control the present; Those who control the present, control the past.^