Hear, Hear (or Read, Read, in this case)

eye Magazine presents a critique of and a counterpoint to a conservative periodical's "most harmful books" list:

...the harmful nature of many books on Human Events' shit list -- selected by a 'panel of 15 conservative scholars' -- can't really be quantified in the loss of human life or destruction of property; rather, the selected books have been deemed most harmful because they dared to question the individual's God-given right to accumulate maximum wealth despite the social consequences and to go home and be cared for by a dutifully subservient wife. (However, none of the books is so harmful as to escape the grasp of capitalism; the list comes complete with purchase links to Amazon.com.)

Only one of the books on the list -- Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf -- has a direct body count attached to it, but even with millions left dead in its wake, the academics who devised the list still deemed it only the second most harmful book of the past 200 years. It was beaten out by Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto, which suggests that, given the choice, conservatives would prefer to face the gas chamber than pay workers a fair wage.