Leo Laporte would have him on a variety of his TWIT podcasts from time to time. I considered once coming up with a drinking game where you'd drink every time Jerry would have a sentence that included, "..when I wrote about...", but I realized you'd kill yourself.
That wasn't as apparent when he was a BYTE columnist for many years but boy his website sure turned into "old man yells at clouds" although he did have serious health issues in his later years.
He nicked it from Robert Michels, who wrote about the Iron Law of Oligarchies in 1911: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
I was reading some old Analog magazines the other day, and man, Pournelle was one deranged man in his "non-fiction".