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.

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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.

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.

Facts matter

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

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.

Just the facts, love the facts

Dr. Thomas Sowell is the man, I’m so glad I found out about this guy

A call to think

This book is eye-opening about how bad policies are created from falsely or incorrectly processing data.

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.