The Vision Of The Anointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy

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.

• The Quest for Cosmic Justice
• Economic Facts and Fallacies
• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
• Intellectuals and Society
• Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp
• Discrimination and Disparities
• Trickle Down Theory and Tax Cuts for the Rich
• Black Rednecks and White Liberals
• Wealth, Poverty and Politics
• Basic Economics