The Vision of the Anointed
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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Jim Seybert
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Thomas Sowell
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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.
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- mernst
- 09-06-24
Sensational
Of all the books of his I’ve read/listened to, this might just be the best. A brilliant companion piece to Rob Henderson’s Troubled, and to his “Luxury Beliefs” framework. The only very slight criticism is that I prefer Robertson Dean’s narration of Sowell’s work, good though Siebert’s is.
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- Edward
- 11-12-22
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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- JB
- 03-11-22
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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- Anonymous User
- 27-07-24
Thomas Sowell as we know him
Once again great lecture on how to look at the reality under the facade
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- Peter Stiernstedt
- 11-03-24
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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