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

Publisher's 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.

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The Most Excoriating Polemic of the Left Ever

I cannot recommend this book enough, as it totally dismantles leftist ideology. Sowell is brazen in his approach and totally unapologetic in his criticisms of the myopia of ideologues, and uses facts and statistics to devastate their position. If you are a "not left" of any ilk, this is the book for you. If you are a leftist, and want to read the best thing the opposition has to offer; this is also the book for you.

The narrator is solid. No complaints here.

One of the best books I have read

I cannot overstate the importance of this book! I plan on reading as many of his books as I can get my hands on.

Enlightening

This was a terrifically educational book to read and listen to! I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about truth!

Really thoughtful perspective

Really thoughtful perspective, on how liberal ideas often sound great, but do not actually deliver on their silly promises.

Excellent

Fact based and not based on emotion or other social motives. True 50 years ago and true today

Another great commentary by Dr. Sowell

While this was written several years ago, the behavior of the Anointed so clearly by Dr. Sowell has been even more evident in recent years with COVID response and the subsequent engineered crises.

Great read!

In classic Sowell fashion, a clear and concise look at the liberal progressive effort to transfer power away from the citizens and place in the hands of the government and unelected bureaucrats. A very interesting read.

Facts matter

Thomas Sowell becomes more prescient by the day…amazing current insights from the last century.

Understand the Loony Left

I like being able to understand the Looney Left and other overconfident leaders. I just wish that there was some way to reverse the destruction they are bringing that could play out within my lifetime.

Necessary Reading

This book should be read and discussed in every high school in America. It should be required reading. The principles and concepts explored by Thomas Sowell in The Vison of the Annointed are fundamentals to every political disagreement and conversation occurring in our nation right now.