Wilfred Reilly: Thomas Sowell: Vision of the Anointed

We continue our series with Dr Wilfred Reilly on the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Each episode reviews a book by thinker Thomas Sowell. Thomas's book, "The Vision of the Anointed: Self Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy."

Sowell's book levels a critique at policy makers and academics who remain distant from critique and rigor. The 1995 books is now considered a classic and one of Sowell's masterpieces.

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From the book's Blurb, "In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas 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."