The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell
The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell
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The Vision of the Anointed
Self Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Author: Thomas Sowell

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2010


Synopsis

In this 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 more. This is an empirical study in which politically correct theory is repeatedly confronted with facts, and the sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a set of selfcongratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elitesthe anointedoften consider themselves thinking people, but this thinking is actually rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against these assertions. The vision of the anointed is seen not merely as a failure but as a fatal danger to the values and the future of American society. Download or stream The Vision of the Anointed audiobook by Thomas Sowell today.

About Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He has been published in both academic journals and such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cassandra Kay on February 15, 2012

Ok I admit it I am a liberal and I read one of Sowells books, so sue me. I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about and to be honest I was fairly pleasantly surprised. I am generally one of these that believes in the "root cause" of social problems as he puts it, perhaps I even have some of th......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on June 02, 2022

Simply a must read and would be great for a late high school student.......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on January 12, 2009

I love people who think in straight lines.......more

Goodreads review by Cav on August 08, 2022

"The views of political commentators or writers on social issues often range across a wide spectrum, but their positions on these issues are seldom random. If they are liberal, conservative, or radical on foreign policy, they are likely to be the same on crime, abortion, or education. There is usual......more