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The Vision of the Anointed
Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social PolicyBy Thomas SowellNarrated by Tom Weiner
Length9h 20m
About this audiobook
In this devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past few decades, 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 more. This is an empirical study in which “politically correct” theory is repeatedly confronted with facts, and the sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elites—the anointed—often consider themselves “thinking people,” but this thinking is actually rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against these assertions. The vision of the anointed is seen not merely as a failure but as a fatal danger to the values and the future of American society.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Psychology
Length9 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byTom Weiner
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 23, 2010
LanguageEnglish
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