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Selling Evil!

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Yes, I find it disturbing when groups left and right feel obligated to put out lists of “harmful” books, even books that are quite obviously harfmul (but wow — John Stuart Mill!). History’s lost on them, I guess.

What’s particularly amusing about the conservative group Human Events list, though, is that not only is each “harmful” book linked to Amazon.com, it’s linked with the Human Events Amazon associates tag, meaning that while these books may be evil, Human Events obviously has no qualms about making a buck or two from disseminating the ideas inside them.

(Link via Charles Paul Fruend)

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 at 6:11 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Selling Evil!”

  1. #1 |  Monkeys and Typewriters |  May 31st, 2005 at 10:59 pm

    Books, books, books…

    Speaking of Amazon, Radley Balko also points out that the HE story actually hyperlinks to the Amazon page of each of the titles in the top 10…

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  2. #2 |  Modulator |  June 1st, 2005 at 1:13 am

    Harmful Books

    For your edification Human Events has compiled a list of harmful books:HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.They don’t re…

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  3. #3 |  PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science |  June 1st, 2005 at 11:44 am

    The Evil that Books Do

    Human Events online provides us with the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
    This strikes me as an odd exercise, to say the least, and one which smacks of anti-intellectualism. Books, per se, aren’t harmful–to borrow a…

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  4. #4 |  Mark in Mexico |  June 1st, 2005 at 12:53 pm

    Most Harmful Books of the last 200 years

    I have read only Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Darwin’s Origin of the Species and Nader’s Unsafe At Any Speed. Having fessed up, I am not altogether unfamiliar with many of the others. I would hazard a guess that most if not all of the bloggers an…

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