Concidering your self admitted lack of knowledge about the author, I would ask you to reconcider this comment and I would be happy to recommend some of his books for your perusal. I think you might feel a little sheepish after you found out how many of his opinons are also held by you.
It should be pointed out however, that the author is not the subject. Thoughtful concideration of the points he has made and critique of them should be the goal of this thread. I know you can rise above discussing the author instead of the ideas, I have seen you do it on occasion.
But if you go back and look, that is all I have been doing. Someone else came along and asked how I could say the author was "too liberal." And if you go back and look (I am not asking you too--hell, I didn't even bother), you will see that I pointed out that I was not speaking about the author, of whom I am not familiar, but his arguments. His arguments, TJ. That is what I have been talking about.