The Vision of the Anointed
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Published on 23. July 2019
320 pages
978-1-5416-4626-1 (ISBN)
Description
A provocative critique of the failures of liberalism
"Compelling." -Wall Street Journal
This book 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 these assumptions.
"Compelling." -Wall Street Journal
This book 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 these assumptions.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Thomas Sowell
Vision of the Anointed
Book
07/1995
Basic Books
€38.56
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. For more than half a century, his writings have appeared in both popular and scholarly publications on both sides of the Atlantic; and his books have been translated into a dozen languages. Since 1980, after a career as an economist in the government, academia, and the corporate world, he has been a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, devoting his efforts to research and writing on subjects ranging from the history and influence of intellectuals to education and social policies in countries around the world.
