The Vision of the Anointed

Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

De: Thomas Sowell

Narrado por: Jim Seybert

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

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.

Fantastic

Very good read! Insightful, educational, and appropriate even years after it was written. Highly recommended.

Solid state of presentation

Clarity of vision and documentation to back it up. Critical read for everyone who wants moral Clarity and intellectual freedom. A gift to humanity

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.

I wish I could get Sowells books to everyone.

There are not enough superlatives to use for Thomas Sowells writings. What a great American thinker. He is a national treasure and he gives me hope for our country.

Sowell is the greatest mind of our time

Sowell dismantles the thinking of the expert class who refuse to acknowledge the damage of their preferred policies.