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The Vision of the Anointed

Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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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 Politics & Government Sociology United States World Social Policy Liberalism Socialism Capitalism
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Its clarity, grounding in reality, its structure, and its presentation. What I don't like is that the book has had so little publicity, unsurprising since he criticises the mass media.

Cogent argument against the hegemony of a self-appointed group of individuals

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Everything is substantiated in data trends and human behaviour not in how we hope people will behave

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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.

Excellent

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excellent book outlining the folly of our elites, offers a great deal of wise perspective on our predicament

must read Thomas Sowell

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

Fascinating, and long awaited audiobook.

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