Apparently, I just don't take my conservativism seriously enough, because I, frankly, have never heard of this site before, but even money says it's been quoted on Rush Limbaugh at least once. Anyway, Online Human Events picked the "Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Century." In an admittedly more political stroke than is usual for this page, but with *my* spirit in mind, here are the top 10:

• The Communist Manifesto: No real argument here, although the theory in the intervening time has been so mutilated by every nation that even attempted to follow it as to make it unrecognizable, unworkable, and ultimately a historical footnote more than anything. Of course, I haven't actually read it, but the results of whatever we have called Communism speak for themselves.
• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler: No argument here, either, but given that Hitler had Syphilis, should he ever really really have gotten as far as he did? Take the big tip here; anyone who appears as a "Shepherd" of great masses of humanity probably has their own agenda, and you're nothing more in that agenda than a water droplet in a surfable wave. Be afraid, be very afraid.
• Quotations From Mao: Are we seeing a pattern here? Communism has been a force, particularly in the 20th century, but now all the really major players, including Russia and China, have jumped the fence, ideologically. The power of the social change affected by Communism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, had more to do with the stamping out of a feudalist, monarchial mentality among blood regimes like the Russian Czars and Chinese dynastic rulers who had probably abused their power for a long time. The genuine everlasting beauty of Russian Czars? Faberge Eggs.
• The Kinsey Report: What, conservatives don't have sex? Something in that idea doesn't compute, because conservatives keep being born. And unless there's a planet of conservative pod-people where all these kids come from, (I've heard the theory that all kids are really born conservatives, which isn't hard to buy, just ask any parent who's ever watched their kids favorite Barney video 35 times in a row,) I find this one substantially hard to swallow. (no cracks from the peanut gallery!) If the prime notion of ultra-conservativism is as it seems to be, maintain the status quo at all costs, it's gotta be as hard a gig as anything else out there.
• Democracy and Education by John Dewey: Sorry, haven't read this one, although as many teachers as I know, ultimately at least one of them probably has. Drop a comment if you know anything about this one.
• Das Kapital: I can see that if you subscribe to the theory that these books will all put hair on your hands and send you straight to hell, you've probably owned at least one car with a "better dead than red" bumper sticker, and contribute on a regular basis to the Republican party.
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan: As many women as I have ever known who have it on the ball more than a lot of the guys I have known, the notion that women *would* be out there, and able to leave a positive mark in society was inevitable. A lot of it is becuase they try harder, a lot of it is becuase they feel the *need* to try harder, just to keep up. The idea that women were all going to go through life looking like a bunch of pampered divas from 60s Cadillac ads is as ludicrous as the notion that women are superior because they're women.
• The Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte: The prevailing notion of the active study of philosophy is that will make you the smartest person working at the 7-11. I agree. I haven't read this one either, and you can probably see why. Don't even know the notion of it, although I've heard the study of philosophy in general is fairly arcane. Yet another one where, if you know more than I do here, (and you might,) drop a comment.
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: The hardest thing about Neitzsche to me is usually spelling his name. And many amongst us have seen the college graffiti about "God is dead--Nietzsche. Nietzsche is dead--God." Almost another instance similar to Mein Kampf, where I REAAAAAAAAALLLY wonder what could have driven this man's state of mind. But I will go no further; God has solved Nietzsche on His own.
• General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Keynes: I find it hard to buy that THIS book would make it on to a conservative's blacklist, unless there's something in the theory I'm not aware of. Dunno, like I said, obviously, I'm not THAT much of a conservative.

........but apparently, with all this, I've probably marked myself out as more of a conservative than a radical. So be it.