November 2, 2025
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Conservatives Afraid of Thoughtful Books

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Human Events, the National Conservative Weekly newsletter asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help them compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. And the award goes to…

Among the most harmful were such frightening treatises as:

  • The Kinsey Report
  • Democracy And Education
  • The Feminine Mystique
  • Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
  • Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Books receiving honorable mention included such despicable titles as Darwin’s Origin of The Species and Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed.

Whoa howdy, let’s have a good ole fashioned book burning.

B. John

B. John Masters writes about democracy, moral responsibility, and everyday Stoicism at deep.mastersfamily.org. A lifelong United Methodist committed to social justice, he explores how faith, ethics, and civic life intersect—and how ordinary people can live out justice, mercy, and truth in public life. A records and information management expert, Masters has lived in the Piedmont,NC, Dayton, OH, Greensboro, NC and Tampa, FL, and is a proud Appalachian State Alum.