Books That Harm

Human Events Online, the conservative news weekly, has published its compilation of the 10 most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries. Hang on to your hats (your libraries?):

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

Honorable mentions include On Liberty by John Stuart Mill ; Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin ; Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader ; Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ; and Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud .

Human Events convened a panel of 15 "conservative scholars and public policy leaders" to compile the list.