Book release media tours work. Or at least one worked on me because I hadn’t really considered reading Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools until I watched him make fun of Max Boot in three separate interviews. I thought I’d discover if Boot is really all that bad.

Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution is a written performance of Carlson’s last two years on television. With simple, conservative arguments, targeted criticisms of “elites,” and a few personal attacks added as salt for taste, Carlson offers everything that made his millions of nightly viewers fall in love with him in the first place.