false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649792m/3044.jpg 3044 4 <div>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&#8212;the anointed&#8212;have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.</div> 55220 1995 The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy total:160|5:81|4:51|3:20|2:5|1:3| 160 682 277 31 5 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 20:43:52 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 21:08:50 -0700 2009 Vision of the Anointed. Watch Sowell fillet mostly leftist-type thought chapter after chapter, page after page,...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 04 09:28:24 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 21 16:15:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:43:09 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:46:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 15 23:16:22 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 19:59:07 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 01:16:38 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 15:44:00 -0700 2008
Basic idea was this. The 'Anointed' are those liberal intellectuals who think that they know more than everyone else. The polarize and moralize the enemy to fix the 'crises' of our time. They don't though because the marke...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 31 13:03:13 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 13:03:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Wed Aug 15 15:56:46 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 19:22:47 -0700 2007 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 15 09:02:15 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 09:07:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 14:36:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 02:23:05 -0800 2009 His philosophy is Stoic and pagan; troubling that so many Christians buy into it so deeply.]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 21 19:13:42 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 19:15:13 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 16 13:26:34 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 13:27:46 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 02 09:09:48 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 09:10:46 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 12 21:04:27 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 21:04:54 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Thu Sep 04 11:19:14 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 11:24:57 -0700 2008
The one thing I did enjoy was while he was obviously talking about the Clinton administration when he wrote it (1995), it was entirely ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 27 15:52:20 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 21:20:59 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Feb 12 11:30:38 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 25 19:46:11 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Mar 17 10:09:19 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 10:18:31 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Aug 13 19:47:24 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 19:50:08 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed May 14 19:58:58 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 20:02:00 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Apr 26 17:08:22 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 29 12:21:14 -0700 2009
Thomas Sowell illuminates how the intellectual class is sealing itself off from discordant feedback. He explains their incentives in maintaining their view regardless of evidence and reality and what this means to the preservation of freedom.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3044