Thomophobia

The most obvious title on this list is Mein Kampf. There are many more. One of the less obvious is the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas.

I am not suggesting a moral equivalence between these two texts. But I’m a journalist. In my experience, if you want people to read you, you have to calibrate what you want to say against what your audience takes for granted, and what needs to be said more carefully, in order not to upset people or derail the argument. And in my experience, outside a few specialist outlets in which I can make different assumptions about the audience, citing Thomas Aquinas requires as much care and context as citing Hitler.