Thomas Sowell

In this presentation you'll hear excerpts from along with quotes from Hazlitt's other works and from the authors who influenced his thought. You'll also hear Hazlitt's account of the fallacies that for decades have corrupted economic insight and understanding.

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.