The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social PolicyThomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mind set 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