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

Written by Thomas Sowell

Narrated by 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Mar 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666197662

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has been a professor of economics at leading American colleges and universities and has lectured in Singapore, Israel, Switzerland, and Germany, as well as across the United States.

Reviews for The Vision of the Anointed

[John Lyon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The author’s logic is very powerful. He does an awesome job of debunking Politically Correct assumptions.

[PeterBartlett3435 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Only mildly insightful. A rewording of classic right tropes. Skimming is sufficient

[teamslynn · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dr. Thomas Sowell has long been one of my favorite authors & scholars; his analysis on issue after issue holds true with a remarkable rate of accuracy.
I’ve read most of his books, but somehow I had not read this wonderful book until recently! I was shocked when I realized it was written 30 years ago!
It’s one thing to get things right after the fact; still another thing to get it right when it is happening! Dr. Sowell manages this beautifully, correctly calling out the predatory tactics of “the anointed” & even predicting the further disastrous consequences that follow the visions’ of the anointed wherever they (and their policies) go.

[Benjamin · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A masterful analysis. Mr Sowell is a brilliant writer who eloquently can get some tough points across. A must read for anyone trying to understand how far down the rabbit hole are as a modern society

[shmuel · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Almost a lone and singular voice of common sense at the highest intellectual level.

[Nathan Walton · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love Dr. Sowell. He keeps things simple and straightforward. Easy to digest content. With brevity he destroys social and economic myths by exposing their lack of supporting evidence.

[Fred Smith · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Still relevant today almost 30 years Later… I’m only sad that it took me this long to listen to it or read it.