This is what passes for scholarship*?
Given some of the books on the guy's list (The Prince, mainly) I can only wonder whether there's an alternate universe in which The Screwtape Letters makes the list.
("That book gave all those evil people IDEAS!")
This is the EXACT SAME mentality behind all the people who fulminated against the Freakonomics Blog for supposedly giving terrorists ideas (in that thread about brainstorming possible security holes, the sooner to patch them).
*- The word "scholarship" chosen in part because the author pointedly puts "Ph.D." at the end of his name. How many books are written by people with doctorates -- and how many of those books list the degree after the author's name on the front cover?
Posted by Matt Bruce at May 16, 2008 02:30 PMYes, putting "Ph.D." on your book cover is a sure sign of insecurity and probably of a crappy book.
Even worse is "M.D." when the book is not strictly about medicine.
Posted by: Richard at May 20, 2008 08:27 PM