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
• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
• Black Rednecks and White Liberals
• Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition
• Discrimination and Disparities
• Basic Economics
• Intellectuals and Society
• Wealth, Poverty and Politics
• Conquests and Cultures: An International History
• Trickle Down Theory and Tax Cuts for the Rich