A "big, big mind"? A "genuine intellectual"? A "dizzying range and command of ideas and language"?
And here I thought he was just the very ordinary variety of garden snake...
"Backs up his positions with erudition"? That I buy. Erudition is sometimes a substitute for facts and logic.... like Creamora. William F. Buckley played that game for decades.
You can like him if you want to but your choice is at least debatable...
...and here, the discussion is not about simply reading him - it is about promoting his views.
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