The Fifty Worst Books

[Mark Thibodeau]

This list - and the other one, their "Best Books" list - are evidence of
souls so patently backwards and ridiculously bound up in
nigh-unto-biological knee-jerk "reaction" that it almost serves as de facto
evidence of the impossibility of "intellectual" conservatism. I mean, that
raging ape Russell Kirk? Those bizarre pseudo-mystics Voegelin and
Strauss?!

I can admit that there are some of their favorites that are good - Jane
Jacobs, Henry Adams, Santayana, etc. And I appreciate that they included
The Autobiography of Malcolm X in both lists. That's clever and probably
proper. HOWEVER, they can't seriously think that all those books that they
listed as "worst" due to their own political takes really are the "worst",
can they?

MT

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
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