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  • The Vision of the Anointed

  • Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
  • By: Thomas Sowell
  • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
  • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)
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Summary

Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures

The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically correct" theory is repeatedly confronted with facts-and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elites-the anointed-often consider themselves "thinking people," but much of what they call thinking turns out, on examination, to be rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against those assertions.

©1995 Thomas Sowell (P)2022 Tantor

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Fascinating, and long awaited audiobook.

I’m not a strong reader and I’m so happy to finally have access to this on Audible.

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Excellent

This 1995 book is incredibly prescient, the scope and depth of reasoning frankly astonishing. I can't recall any other great work of social analysis that can cast a shadow on this giant of a book.

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Too many words

In a sense this is an excellent book, with equally excellent insights. They are, however, drowning in a flood of unnecessary words and repetitions. It could have been half as long and consequently probably twice as good.

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