Wednesday, June 01, 2005

The thought police are at it again

This time 'Human Events' (a right wing publication) is leading the charge. They have outlined a list of the 10 most harmful books on the 19th and 20th century. I do find it humorous who so many on the right are afraid of ideas.


The Communist Manifesto
Mein Kampf
Quotations from Chairman Mao
The Kinsey Report
Democracy and Education
Das Kapital
The Feminine Mystique
The Course of Positive Philosophy
Beyond Good and Evil
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

and honorable mention

The Population Bomb
What Is To Be Done
Authoritarian Personality
On Liberty
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Reflections on Violence
The Promise of American Life
Origin of the Species
Madness and Civilization
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization
Coming of Age in Samoa
Unsafe at Any Speed
Second Sex
Prison Notebooks
Silent Spring
Wretched of the Earth
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
The Greening of America
The Limits to Growth
Descent of Man


I guess it is time for the book burners to get the fires stoked.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So books about sex and the environment have devastated our culture? I guess nature and natural behavior are to be banned immediately.

Jon said...

I noticed the list was heavy in those areas.

A real shock isn't it.