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Title: Intent vs. Results
Review: I have enjoyed Mona Charen's columns for several years and looked forward to reading this book. It succeeds on many levels, but the most important point it makes (which those who dislike the book seem to dislike the most) is that the results of your actions are actually more important than your intent. The Do-Gooders of her book are those, primarily liberals, who want to do good things for many of the right reasons. Their problem, which makes it all our problem, is that they are unable or unwilling to use objective measures to determine if the results match the intent.If you enjoy this type of book, I would direct you to my favorite socio-political author Thomas Sowell. His book The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy is another powerful indictment of those who do things because it makes them feel righteous - even though they leave disaster in their wake.
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