No. 107: Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: Rough Seas for Government Lovers

Sometimes you can do more damage to a bad idea with humor and satire than with a great scholarly treatise. That’s the working premise of Ken Schoolland’s The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible. This book is a wonderful takeoff on Jonathan Swift’s political satire Gulliver’s Travels and it romps all over the big, dumb ideas of socialism, egalitarianism, and democracy. Written in 1981, the book is now in its fourth printing and has been translated into 21 languages. It’s wickedly good fun with a serious purpose.