Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution is a nonfiction political book by television host Tucker Carlson.

Published by Simon & Schuster, Ship of Fools was released on October 2, 2018, before that year's midterm elections, and entered number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.

[1][2] Carlson's thesis applies the allegory given in Plato's Republic to the modern United States: the American Ship of State has been hijacked by an incompetent crew (the current political and economic elite ruling class) who are oblivious or contemptuous to the needs of the passengers (the citizens) and intolerant of criticism.

[3] Carlson does not restrict his definition of the elite to liberal members of Congress, but rather includes both Republican (Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham) and Democratic (Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton) politicians, neoconservative pundits such as Bill Kristol, and entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, whom he blames for decimating the American middle class.

[6] Raymond, who said Carlson was "very precious and very, very polite and sweet" when she knew him, called her inclusion "the most embellished, crazy thing" she had ever heard.