Oookay.....
Jun. 1st, 2005 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundAccording to a board of conservatives, (including Phyllis Schlafly), this list is the "Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries"
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591
Now, I'll agree with them on books like "The Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf", (no. 1 and 2 respectfully) And certainly I have no use for "Quotations from Chairman Mao" (#3) and "Das Kapital" (#6).
However, I think they're off base with "The Kinsey Report" (#4). And their "Honorable Mentions" section also mentions Darwin's "Origin of the Species" and "Descent of Man", as well as Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex" and Freud's "Introduction to Psychoanalysis" (which is more quant by today's standards.
(sigh) Silly people
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591
Now, I'll agree with them on books like "The Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf", (no. 1 and 2 respectfully) And certainly I have no use for "Quotations from Chairman Mao" (#3) and "Das Kapital" (#6).
However, I think they're off base with "The Kinsey Report" (#4). And their "Honorable Mentions" section also mentions Darwin's "Origin of the Species" and "Descent of Man", as well as Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex" and Freud's "Introduction to Psychoanalysis" (which is more quant by today's standards.
(sigh) Silly people
