The vision of the anointed: self-congratulation as a basis for social policy
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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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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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Economic policy
Elite (Social sciences)
Elite (Social sciences) -- United States
Intellectuals
Political science
Social classes
Social sciences
United States -- Social policy
Economic policy
Elite (Social sciences)
Elite (Social sciences) -- United States
Intellectuals
Political science
Social classes
Social sciences
United States -- Social policy
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The vision of the anointed : self-congratulation as a basis for social policy
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The Vision of the Anointed [electronic resource] / Thomas Sowell
The vision of the anointed : self-congratulation as a basis for social policy / Thomas Sowell
The vision of the anointed : self-congratulation as a basis for social policy / Thomas Sowell
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The vision of the anointed
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self-congratulation as a basis for social policy
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Economic policy
Elite (Social sciences)
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Political science
Social classes
Social policy
Social sciences
Economic policy
Elite (Social sciences)
Intellectuals
Political science
Social classes
Social policy
Social sciences
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