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The Vision of the Anointed

Name: The Vision of the Anointed
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Author: Thomas Sowell
ISBN: 9780465089956

Thomas Sowell · 1996 · 320 pages

Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.

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Keith Rabois
“@paulg @rivatez Upside of Stress, Why We Sleep, The Score Takes Care of Itself, The Little Kingdom, Vision of the Anointed.”↗
David Heinemeier Hansson
“"Highly recommend this book by Thomas Sowell as an answer to the question of whether it's within the power of the Danes to "cure" people from certain nations of origin of their violent ways. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC0T72/"”↗
Marc Andreessen
“15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”↗
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