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The Vision of the Anointed

Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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The Vision of the Anointed

By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
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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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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.

Sensational

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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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As a swede one could only hope sowell and this book in particular would be mandatory reading in schools. Nowhere in Sweden is this perspective brought to light however true it might be.

incredibly important counter narrative to the prevailing narrative of western media in general

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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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Once again great lecture on how to look at the reality under the facade

Thomas Sowell as we know him

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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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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.

Too many words

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