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

Thomas Sowell's companion to A Conflict of Visions, arguing that the 'anointed' — the intellectual and media class — believe they are entitled to redesign society according to their superior vision, and that the results of this social engineering have been systematically disastrous.

For founders, The Vision of the Anointed is a warning against the hubris of the intellectual class and the dangers of top-down social planning untested by reality. It's part of the Sowell canon Andreessen recommends.