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# Ten Bad Books
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1324/
- Published: 2005-06-11T16:45:06.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-22T23:48:27.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Books, #wpChunk, Briefly

*Human Events* asked conservative scholars to compile a list of the most harmful books of the past 200 years. Here are the results:

1\. *The Communist Manifesto*  
 2\. *Mein Kampf*  
 3\. *Quotations from Chairman Mao*  
 4\. *The Kinsey Report*  
 5\. *Democracy and Education*  
 6\. *Das Kapital*  
 7\. *The Feminine Mystique*  
 8\. *The Course of Positive Philosophy*  
 9\. *Beyond Good and Evil*  
 10\. *General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money*

For a discussion of each, [go here](http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Here are the honorable mentions:

*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*

The mention of *Silent Spring* reminds us of an anecdote about Thomas Merton. After he had gone of the left end, he convinced his superiors at the monastery to have *Silent Spring* read during the monks' meals. The reading during meals is normally reserved for scriptures of venerable holy works. It's a good indication of how highly Merton had come to value his politics.