DSW, #99
John Dewey, American pragmatist, born 20 October 1859, died 1 June 1952.
Dewey has been honoured this week by having his book, Democracy and Education, included on a list of the “Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries” produced by a team of conservative intellectuals at Human Events Online. It comes in at #5, less wicked than the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, The Little Red Book and Kinsey, but more wicked than Capital, The Feminine Mystique, Auguste Comte, Beyond Good and Evil and Keynes’s General Theory, with John Stuart Mill’s essay On Liberty coming in a disappointing fourteenth and failing to make the list.