22 of Your Picks for the Best Political Satire
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People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.
In his first novel in four years, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war; working-class men dream of burying the elites. When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.
Satire is vital. The technique shocks us into recognizing the absurdity of the damaging norms we’ve become used to. It makes us laugh, but it should also make us change. So we asked you to tell us what some of your favorite political satires are. Here’s a smattering of what you shared: Animal Farm by George Orwell Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P. J. O’Rourke The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The People’s Manifesto by Mark Thomas Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America’s Finest News Source by “The Onion” The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett The Birds by Aristophanes Boomsday by Christopher Buckley It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis MacBird! By Barbara Garson I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert In the Red by Mark Tavener The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.
In his first novel in four years, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war; working-class men dream of burying the elites. When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.
Satire is vital. The technique shocks us into recognizing the absurdity of the damaging norms we’ve become used to. It makes us laugh, but it should also make us change. So we asked you to tell us what some of your favorite political satires are. Here’s a smattering of what you shared: Animal Farm by George Orwell Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P. J. O’Rourke The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The People’s Manifesto by Mark Thomas Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America’s Finest News Source by “The Onion” The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett The Birds by Aristophanes Boomsday by Christopher Buckley It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis MacBird! By Barbara Garson I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert In the Red by Mark Tavener The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
