This has been getting blogged all round the Internets: Conservative nutjobs pick the 10 most harmful books of the past two centuries.

Actually, I'm surprised by how few of these I've read. I've read Beyond Good and Evil, and have read portions of Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. If we get down to their honorable mentions, I've read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (A "harmful" book? WTF?) and Coming of Age in Samoa. (Which I was assigned in a college anthropology class in part as a cautionary tale about how easy it is to get informants to tell you what you really want to hear. The book undoubtedly did damage to the field of anthropology, but it's probably on the list because the book goes to great lengths to suggest that puberty is less traumatic in cultures which have fewer hangups about sex.)

Really, you've got to follow the link and read the blurbs they put on these books. I'm rather sorry that the runner up books didn't get blurbed as well - I'd like to see them do the same smear job on Mill that they did on Dewey and Keynes.

The really classy part, as someone pointed out to me, is that they included Amazon Affiliate links to all the books in the top 10. I have a kind of perverse desire to click through and order copies of all of the books.