The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

A provocative critique of the failures of liberalism

“Compelling.” —Wall Street Journal

This book 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 wit...