Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed Social policies of the past thirty years.
In this book, he describes how elites--the anointed--have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the.
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.
Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed Social policies of the past thirty years