One of my colleagues passed along this little tidbit to me: the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries, as judged by a panel of conservative scholars organized by Human Events, a national conservative weekly magazine. In reverse order, they are:

10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
9. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche (1886)
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte (1830-1842)
7. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
6. Das Kapital by Karl Marx (1867-1894)
5. Democracy and Education by John Dewey (1916)
4. The Kinsey Report by Alfred Kinsey (1948)
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao by Mao Zedong (1966)
2. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1926)

[Drumroll] And the Number One Most Dangerous Book of the 19th and 20th Centuries:

1. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels (1848)

It’s nice to see that many of these books are considered classics in sociology. As Tom Cruise says in Top Gun, “That’s right, Iceman. I am dangerous.”