I agree 100%. I had heard of him, but up until about five years ago, had never done more than read an occasional article. Then, I watched a video of a lecture he gave, and I was so impressed I went out and bought the book.
Like you, I regard the man as one of the foremost conservative intellectuals. I see him in the same light as Thomas Sowell.
Yes.
The Left does a stellar job of keeping people like Thomas Sowell and Victor Davis Hanson away from their acolytes. Their whole premise is to keep their followers ignorant.
It is why they are going to such great efforts to diminish, destroy, hide, and outright censor any awareness of the Dinesh D’Souza “2000 Mules” documentary.
Truth has a funny way of changing the minds of those who have not deliberately closed it off to the truth as Leftists do.
The Left is very lock-step in keeping the important voices of liberty ignored and understudied. The list is endless and runs from Edmund Burke on forward. The Stanford Institute members is a good place to start.