Indeed. I find him to be well-reasoned and typically correct. George Friedman is another. Thomas Sowell for economics. A bit dated but I've gotten into Neil Postman lately and some of the parallels I've been able to draw between his thoughts on television and the current social media environment are shocking.
This podcast of Zeihan discussing Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History” was recently published- some good observations. Thought you, Griz and some of the others might find it interesting as well as counter-intuitive.