The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies
<div><div><b>Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>The Vision of the Anointed</i> is a devastating critique of the mind-set 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.</div></div><div><br></div>
Country USA
Brand Basic Books
Manufacturer Basic Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780465089956
ReleaseDate 1996-06-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780465089956

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy