"Political Science" is a song written and performed by singer-songwriter Randy Newman on his 1972 album, Sail Away.
In going along with the theme of the rest of the album, the song is a satire of a particular part of American culture and history, namely its foreign policies at the time.
And I do write a lot of those, songs that are meant to be funny in a form that listeners take the people in it more seriously than literature.
[2] "Political Science" is prominently performed by Newman on the final credits of the 1999 film Blast from the Past.
[citation needed] Artists including Don Henley, Pedro the Lion, Glen Phillips, Natalie Merchant, and Wilco have performed live covers of this song.