Yes-he is always a pleasure to listen to. I regard him as highly as I regard Thomas Sowell, and that is pretty damn high!
I had a funny experience recently, when my wife and I visited the Calvin Coolidge Homestead and Library up in Plymouth Notch, VT. They had a docent who was giving us a tour, and while we were waiting for the group to form up, the Docent, who was apparently some kind of retired professor of history, was talking at length about some Greek antiquity subject.
It was interesting, and I said “Oh, that’s great. You must be a fan of Victor Davis Hanson!”
He got all flustered for a second as his mask dropped off his face, and I could see that he not only knew who Victor Davis Hanson was, he despised him!
He stammered and immediately realized he did what someone in his position at a Presidential Library for a noted Conservative such as Calvin Coolidge should never have done, and then stuttered “Well, I have used some of his work in my research for my book...” and he left it at that.
He was okay for the rest of the tour, but he had exposed himself as a Leftist, but I give him credit. I listened closely for any trace of Leftism in his tour, but he knew that for his position, he could not let his mask down again, and he didn’t!
Fun story.
It’s satisfying when masks drop. You can never unsee it.