I was at a dinner once where George F. Will was the guest speaker and what he had to say was very interesting and insightful, but then he did confine himself to talking about baseball.
http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061999819
And apparently he's also an expert on beer (BTW, he didn't touch on that subject when I heard him speak, but then he was sitting at the same table as was the Archbishop of Detroit):
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/04/11/george-will-explains-his-unified-theory-of-beer-and-speaks-with-theblaze-about-all-things-baseball/

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