Vision of the Annointed...

Investor's Business Daily has a great interview with the always-interesting Thomas Sowell.  A sample – Sowell explaining what he means by the “Vision of the Annointed”:

It's the theory that there is an elite group of people who are very knowledgeable and their knowledge should be used to guide the decisions of society. So they are not simply an elite in the sense that sinecurists might be an elite, but they are elite with an anointed role in the world. To put it uncharitably, as someone once said, "Born booted and spurred to ride mankind." Examples of that would not be hard to find in Washington, D.C.