Harm?

[bcholmes]

Someone at work sent me a list of the ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries. As defined by 15 conservative scholars, that is.

Check out these totally unbiased comments:

The [Kinsey] reports were designed to give a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy.

And:

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.

And:

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.

Runner-ups include Unsafe at Any Speed and Origin of the Species.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Actually, it shows the limitations of "my enemy's enemy"--Mein Kampf, for instance.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

ooo! good point. forgot about that one :)

*blush*

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