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

from whiteberg

Excellent, brave foray into the vision of activists judges and self-rigtheous politicians and journalists. Perhaps a bit dated in the Bush/Obama era, but the historical parts are really interesting, especially the ones regarding judicial activism, and the analysis of the "vision of the anointed" ...

from jahn

What Sowell later was to name "those with a constrained view and those with an unconstrained" in "A Conflict of Visions," are here named the "tragic" and the "anointed." The tragic are those who like Sowell has a constrained view of man's potentialities, who admits the realities of life is the ne...

from whiteberg

Excellent, brave foray into the vision of activists judges and self-rigtheous politicians and journalists. Perhaps a bit dated in the Bush/Obama era, but the historical parts are really interesting, especially the ones regarding judicial activism, and the analysis of the "vision of the anointed" ...

from hardlyhardy

I am 25 years late reading Thomas Sowell's “The Vision of the Anointed” (1995), yet his main points could have been written yesterday. That's because what he terms the "vision of the anointed" hasn't changed, not just since 1995 but for hundreds of years. By anointed he means those people — mostl...

from Scarchin

Powerful, erudite, thought-provoking, essential - one of the most important books of our time.Published in 1995 - Sowell predicts the actions and behaviors of the modern "progressive movement" with stunning accuracy.