The Vision of the Anointed
SelfCongratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by Thomas Sowell
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“15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles The Vision of the Anointed: SelfCongratulation as a Basis for Social Policy | @JackPosobiec I just finished reading Sowell's Vision of the Anointed yesterday morning. Amazing book | @SarKE @coldxman I've read a lot of his works and those are my two favorites. His book on Affirmative Action was fascinating, but I thought he overstated some claims. Visions of the Anointed is also wonderful, but it's more of a polemic (it's a good polemic, but not everyone's cup of tea) | @paulg @rivatez Upside of Stress, Why We Sleep, The Score Takes Care of Itself, The Little Kingdom, Vision of the Anointed.”
Source →“15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles The Vision of the Anointed: SelfCongratulation as a Basis for Social Policy | @JackPosobiec I just finished reading Sowell's Vision of the Anointed yesterday morning. Amazing book | @SarKE @coldxman I've read a lot of his works and those are my two favorites. His book on Affirmative Action was fascinating, but I thought he overstated some claims. Visions of the Anointed is also wonderful, but it's more of a polemic (it's a good polemic, but not everyone's cup of tea) | @paulg @rivatez Upside of Stress, Why We Sleep, The Score Takes Care of Itself, The Little Kingdom, Vision of the Anointed.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Marc Andreessen and Keith Rabois
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Sociology, Most Recommended Books, and Finance.
Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed 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 educa...
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“15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles The Vision of the Anointed: SelfCongratulation as a Basis for Social Policy | @JackPosobiec I just finished reading Sowell's Vision of the Anointed yesterday morning. Amazing book | @SarKE @coldxman I've read a lot of his works and those are my two favorites. His book on Affirmative Action was fascinating, but I thought he overstated some claims. Visions of the Anointed is also wonderful, but it's more of a polemic (it's a good polemic, but not everyone's cup of tea) | @paulg @rivatez Upside of Stress, Why We Sleep, The Score Takes Care of Itself, The Little Kingdom, Vision of the Anointed.”
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