I blog from Santa Barbara, California--in the office behind the fourth window from the right on the second floor of this building to be exact. I flew from Boston to Santa Barbara via LAX last night. It amazes me that my ticket across the country cost $400 while my cab fare across Santa Barbara cost more than a tenth of that. I'm also happily stunned that both of my American Airlines flights made it into the sky with all of the rigamarole surrounding the inspections that are grounding so many flights. Surely the aviation gods smile upon me. I am in Santa Barbara for a Young America's Foundation retreat with a couple dozen of their best activists. This marks the first time that I will give a talk on A Conservative History of the American Left. How does one compress hundreds of years of history in a twenty-five minute talk? One doesn't, I think is the right answer. This also marks my first trip to the Reagan Ranch, which has become a pilgrimage site for the American Right. I am excited. In my final days working for Young America's Foundation, the idea of purchasing the Reagan Ranch was floated. It sounded interesting, but I wondered to what end. Eleven years later, the Foundation, with the purchase and protection of this landmark, has elevated itself as the guardian of the Reagan legacy and an umbrella group on the Right. When I labored for the Foundation in mid-'90s, and I really did labor, their budget hovered around $5 million. They now boast an annual budget approaching $20 million. What changed? The two factors in the boon seem to be that I left and they bought the Reagan Ranch.

I speak tonight at Connecticut College at 8 p.m. in the 1941 Room of the Crozier Williams Student Union. If you're in the area, drop by. The last time I spoke at Connecticut College, a mob of students began shouting whenever I said something that they objected to, which happened quite frequently. One student stood to obstruct the podium for the duration of the speech. I hope for a more civil reception tonight.

I was scheduled to give a talk this Monday at Mercy High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan. But I won't be speaking. The school's principal rather abruptly cancelled the invitation.

The student pro-life club invited me to speak on Margaret Sanger, who, apart from founding Planned Parenthood, was a rather outspoken racist, an anti-Catholic bigot, and an enthusiast of concentration camps, eugenics, and forced sterilization. One would think that Sanger, and not someone criticizing Sanger, would be controversial at a Catholic school. Alas, the topsy-turvy world of Catholic education offers many surprises.

Carolyn Witte, the school's principal, lamely rationalizes her decision by noting that the "content" of my speech, of which she has no idea, "could be misunderstood." By such standards, every speech might be banned. Last year the school attempted to block a student-led 9/11 memorial by claiming that the flags the students intended to hang outdoors were a fire-hazard--a characterization the local fire department found laughable. In its efforts to silence speech it dislikes, the school's administration is setting a horrible example for its students.

Mercy is a private high school. It's not a college. It's not tax funded. The standards on free speech, then, differ from, say, Michigan State. Had they not wanted me to speak, they had every right to do so prior to contracting with Young America's Foundation to host me. But once an agreement is reached, disinviting a speaker becomes a breach of contract. I purchased plane tickets. I coaxed a relative to take off work and mind my son in my absence. I prepared a speech that I have never given before. My student hosts, and Young America's Foundation, also put quite a bit of work into organizing the event. But, because liberal administrators wish to shield a liberal icon, all that work and money has gone down the drain.

There is a rather inglorious side to Margaret Sanger that gets pushed into the dark. I was hoping to put some light onto it at Mercy High School. That it's not safe to offer criticism of an abortion-rights icon at a Catholic high school demonstrates why the mythology surrounding Planned Parenthood's founder has persisted for so long.

On Monday, April 24, I speak at Kutztown University on the themes addressed in Why the Left Hates America. The talk takes place at 7 p.m. in the Boehm Science Center. The event is sponsored by Young America's Foundation and KU's College Republicans. It is free and open to the public. FlynnFiles readers in southeastern Pennsylvania are encouraged to attend.

Flynn Files readers on Long Island and in upstate New York are invited to attend my area lectures. On Thursday, April 13, I speak at Skidmore College on Why the Left Hates America. My talk takes place at 7 p.m. in Gannet Auditorium. On April 26, I speak at Stony Brook University (details to follow). Both events are free, open to the public, and sponsored by Young America's Foundation.

FlynnFiles readers in Oregon are invited to attend my lectures in the Beaver State next week. On Monday, April 10, I speak at Oregon State University in Corvallis. My lecture, sponsored by the OSU Student Alliance, will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Lounge. The following day, April 11, I speak at Portland State University. My lecture, sponsored by the PSU College Republicans, takes place at 12:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center. Both events are free, open to the public, sponsored by Young America's Foundation, and focus on the themes addressed in Why the Left Hates America.

I will be speaking tomorrow at Accuracy in Academia's Capitol Hill conference, The Ivory Tower's War on the Military. My remarks take place at 11 a.m. on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol in SC-4. Although I served as an enlisted Marine in the Reserves, I have been involved in the battle to gain access to the campuses for the Reserve Officer Training Corps for more than a decade. I'll discuss that battle, as well as the history of academia's hostility to ROTC and students who serve, in my talk. DC-area FlynnFilers, contact AIA for details and to RSVP.

FlynnFiles readers are invited to attend my speech this Thursday at Boston College. The talk, covering the themes addressed in Why the Left Hates America, will take place on March 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Merkert Hall, Room 127. Young America's Foundation and the BC College Republicans are the sponsors of the event. Following the lecture, I'll have some books to sign. Introduce yourself if you are a FlynnFiles reader.

I speak at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on Thursday, September 29. My lecture takes place at 7 p.m. and will be held in Albright Auditorium. The lecture topic is Why the Left Hates America. The event, which is sponsored by Young America's Foundation and the HWSC College Republicans, is free and open to the public. If you live in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, I hope to see you at the event.

C-SPAN2 will reair the Great Books to Read in College panel that I moderated at Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference in August. The rebroadcast will occur at 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 11. Jonah Goldberg called the panel "a serious, humane and highly intellectual discussion about books and their importance." About my take on the history of conservative books, he added, "Flynn...got just about everything exactly right. I also think he was basically right that conservative books have gotten a lot worse in the last decade." I agree with him. I think Jonah got just about everything exactly right about me getting just about everything exactly right. I also think he was basically right in saying that I was basically right that conservative books have gotten a lot worse in the last decade. (My apologies for the silliness of these last few lines. I promise to refrain for the next two sentences.) The panelists--Regnery's Marjory Ross, Spence's Mitch Muncy, and Doubleday's Adam Bellow--recommended some great books for the assembled students, while I outlined the paradox of greater opportunities for conservative authors corresponding with a declining product for conservative readers. Sit-in on the discussion at 4 p.m. Sunday on C-SPAN2 to understand why Jonah Goldberg said that the panel "made me very proud of conservatism as a movement." Chiggity-check it out.

I will be on C-SPAN today at 3 p.m. (EDT) moderating a panel on "Great Books to Read in College." I will be making about five minutes of opening remarks at 3 p.m., introducing the three panelists, and facilitating the question and answer period. The event is part of Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference.

Last fall, a crew from Penn & Teller's program on Showtime followed me around Boston for a few hours. The episode that they interviewed me for, entitled "College," airs tonight at 10 p.m. on the pay network. Tune in. Barring any ill-advised edits that leave me on the cutting-room floor, I should appear as a talking-head on the irreverent documentary-style show.

I speak tonight at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The Carleton Conservative Union hosts the speech. Carleton, of course, was where Paul Wellstone taught political science prior to putting his classroom know-how to work on the campaign trail. The lecture takes place at 7 p.m. in Boliou Hall. On Tuesday, May 17, I'll be giving a talk at the University of Oregon in Eugene. My hosts are the College Republicans. That lecture takes place at 8 p.m. in Lillis 211. The subject of both talks is Why the Left Hates America. Both events are free, open to the public, and sponsored by Young America's Foundation. If you're a FlynnFiles reader who lives near Northfield, Minnesota or Eugene, Oregon, come out to show your support (I'll need it) and be sure to introduce yourself.

I speak at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst tonight at 7 p.m. in room 163-C of the Campus Center. The speech will be on the themes addressed in Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. A book signing will follow. On May 12, I speak at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and five days later I speak at the University of Oregon in Eugene. More information on times and room locations to follow. FlynnFiles readers in the areas of the lectures are encouraged to attend. All events are free, open to the public, and sponsored by Young America's Foundation.

I encourage FlynnFiles readers in the Bay State to attend one of my two lectures in the next week. On Thursday, April 21, the College Republicans of Smith College in Northampton sponsor my talk on Why the Left Hates America. The event will take place in McConnell 103 at 8 p.m. On Monday, April 25, the College Republicans of Emmanuel College in Boston host my lecture on the same topic. The event will be held on campus in the AMR meeting room on the second floor of the administration building. It begins at 7:30 p.m. Both events are sponsored by Young America's Foundation and will be followed by a book signing. Stay tuned to FlynnFiles for details on upcoming lectures at UMass-Amherst and Carleton College.

I appear tonight on the 700 Club, discussing left-wing bias and intolerance on the college campuses. In addition to book-writing and blogging, I work for the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program, which actually does something about the lack of intellectual balance on college campuses. A few of the students in the piece are active in our programs. The 700 Club is aired on ABC's Family Channel at 11 p.m. (eastern). If you miss seeing the segment when it runs, CBN News has a print piece related to the visual piece that airs today.

C-SPAN conducted a brief interview with me on Intellectual Morons at the Conservative Political Action Conference. It runs about four minutes, and should air this weekend. Tonight, I appear on MSNBC's Hardball. I'll be debating left-wing bias and intolerance on college campuses. Hardball starts at 7 p.m. (Eastern), and my understanding is that my segment will air later during the program. On Saturday, I'll be signing copies of Intellectual Morons at CPAC.

I blog from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the group I direct, the Campus Leadership Program, is hosting a retreat for conservative students. The weekend event follows seven lectures in four days in three states. My lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison highlighted the week. A few liberals in the overflow crowd looked upon me, mouths agape, the way I stare at zebras at the zoo (Could zebras be more common than conservatives in Madison?).

My week on the road ends today. I'm excited about introducing young people to one of my favorite pieces of writing, The Law, in a book discussion at the retreat. The basic point of the slim volume is made in a few short lines: "But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." Frederic Bastiat's ability to make a complicated point simple is perhaps the best explanation for The Law's enduring popularity a century-and-a-half after it was written. A majority of current government activity would fail Bastiat's litmus test.

The aforementioned passage is the most quoted from The Law for good reason. But since that's everyone's favorite, I thought I'd highlight a more overlooked line: "If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good?" That's the question that planners and do-gooders should have to answer before embarking upon any one of their numerous schemes.

I have seven campus speeches in the next four days. If you live in Wisconsin, Indiana, or Michigan, please come out to one of the lectures and introduce yourself. The Campus Leadership Program, of which I am the director, organized the lectures through its growing network of student groups.

On Monday, I speak at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside at noon (Greenquist Hall, Room 103) and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at 7 p.m. (Memorial Union, Old Madison Room). On Tuesday, I speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at noon (Union Room 191) and at Notre Dame at 8:30 p.m. (DeBartolo Hall, Room 141). On Wednesday, I speak at Ball State at 7 p.m. (Student Center, Room 301). On Thursday, I speak at the Thomas Cooley School of Law in Lansing, Michigan at 4 p.m. and at Michigan State in East Lansing at 7:30 p.m. (Wells Hall, B102). The last time I spoke at Michigan State, an overseer of a campus building threatened me with arrest if I spoke. I'm hoping the reception this time is more tolerant.

I speak at Kalamazoo College tonight on Intellectual Morons at 7 p.m. in Dalton Theater. On February 2, I speak at the University of Vermont on Intellectual Morons at 7 p.m. in the Ira Allen Chapel. Both events are free, open to the public, and sponsored by Young America's Foundation (which is also sponsoring this student essay contest on my book). If you're a reader of FlynnFiles and in the area of Kalamazoo, Michigan or Burlington, Vermont, I encourage you to come to an event and introduce yourself.

I spoke at Rutgers University Wednesday night to a crowd of about seventy-five. If you recall, Rutgers was recently the site of a massive newspaper theft of a humor publication that had offended campus feminists. The school's reputation is left-wing, but I encountered an audience quite receptive to my message and departed with an empty book box.

The conservative student publication at the school, The Centurion, has run into some trouble of its own. You see, they have no faculty advisor because they haven't found a single professor who will agree do it. Think I'm joking? The Centurion recently researched the Federal Election Commission's reports on the recent election, and found that for every $1 Rutgers employees gave to George W. Bush, they gave $104 to John Kerry.

"I'm a Marxist, a socialist, a feminist, and a pragmatic postmodernist," admits History Professor James Livingston, until recently the paper's advisor. Livingston, despite obvious political disagreements with The Centurion, initially agreed to be the paper's advisor--but at the cost of the publication giving him a page in each issue to air his thoughts. This didn't work out, and the two parties have gone their separate ways.

While there's nothing wrong with student groups having a faculty advisor, requiring one seems in some cases discriminatory--at least at a place like Rutgers, where campaign giving for the Democrats' presidential candidate outpaced giving to the Republican by a factor of more than one-hundred. For even the Marxist, socialist, feminist, pragmatic postmodernist former faculty advisor of The Centurion admits: "By now we all know that the pilot disciplines in the Arts & Sciences are dominated by leftists of one kind or another."

I welcome FlynnFiles readers in the fire-engine red states of Georgia and Tennessee to attend one of my lectures this Thursday. At 12:15 p.m., I speak at Emory University School of Law in room 1B of the law building. The event is sponsored by the Federalist Society. Later that evening, I lecture at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee at 7 p.m. Young America's Foundation sponsors that event.

C-SPAN taped my lecture at Colby College on Wednesday. C-SPAN2's Book TV will be airing it several times within the coming days, including October 31 at 6:30 a.m., and November 1 at 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Young America's Foundation sponsored the event, which ran about an hour and fifteen minutes. The eighty to one-hundred students who attended were generally civil, but they made some really out-there statements in response to the lecture. You'll understand when you watch the broadcast. Claims that Communism has never failed because it has never been tried and audible gasps at my labeling the 9/11 terrorists "barbarians" were among the foolish responses audience members had during the question and answer session. The lecture itself focused the main themes within Intellectual Morons. I had a lot of fun at the event, and hopefully you'll have a lot of fun watching the event.

If you're near Waterville, Maine, come to hear me speak tonight at Colby College. The address starts at 7 p.m., and takes place in Page Commons. On Thursday, I speak at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This event also begins at 7 p.m. It's being held in building four, room 270. Who'd have thought they'd use numbers rather than names to label buildings at MIT?

If you're a radio listener and get the Howie Carr Show in your area, I will be appearing on that program on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. C-SPAN has expressed interest in covering the Colby speech. In promoting Why the Left Hates America, I really discovered C-SPAN's power. My appearance on the network did more to sell books than any other single piece of publicity. The day following the Colby lecture, Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t! will be interviewing me for an upcoming program. They'll be shooting at my MIT lecture as well, which is an additional reason to attend the talk. I'm a fan of the show, so I'm hoping they treat me kindly.

I do communicate with the world via means other than my computer. Specifically, I give several dozen lectures on campuses during the school year. I encourage my readers to come and say hi in person.

I'll be speaking at Accuracy in Media's monthly noon luncheon on October 21 in Washington, DC. The following week, I'll deliver a lecture at Colby College in Waterville, Maine on October 27 in Page Commons at 7 p.m. The next night, I venture into Noam Chomsky's home turf, MIT, to speak. I travel to Bel Air, Maryland on November 3 to lecture at Hartford Community College. On November 11, the Federalist Society will be sponsoring my lecture at Emory University School of Law in the early afternoon and later that evening Young America's Foundation will be sponsoring my talk at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. On November 16, I give an address at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina. As events get added to the calendar, I'll post updates. If you live in the general vicinity of any of these events, come to a lecture. I hope to see you there.

I'll be making dozens of radio appearances on stations around the country to promote Intellectual Morons in the coming days. I kicked things off on KABC's Al Rantel Show last night in LA. Wednesday morning I'll appear on KSFO's Morning Show in San Francisco at 7 a.m. PDT, WDUN's Martha Zoeller Show in Atlanta at 11 a.m. EDT, and KMSR's Kevin McCarthy Show in Dallas at 11 a.m. CDT. Tomorrow's appearances include an in-studio interview with the G. Gordon Liddy at 1 p.m. EDT, and phone interviews with KMSR's David Gold Show at 3:30 p.m. CDT and WRKO's Howie Carr Show at 5:30 p.m. EDT. If you don't get these shows in your area, you can listen to my discussion with Greg Allen of The Right Balance tomorrow over the world wide web. Stay tuned to FlynnFiles for what radio stations--more shows will be added to this schedule shortly--you should stay tuned to for hearing about Intellectual Morons.

I won't be on The O'Reilly Factor tonight, after all. I was informed this evening that O'Reilly would be postponing the interview. This is television, and these things happen. Hopefully, a date will be rescheduled soon. When it is, I'll let you know immediately. On the brighter side, there are several dozen radio interviews I have scheduled. I'll have a listing of some of the dates, times, and programs that I'll appear on in a post shortly.

Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas is released tomorrow. To kick off the national publicity campaign, I'm scheduled to appear on The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel on Tuesday night. The show starts at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Be sure to tune in to FNC on Tuesday, and be sure to check back to FlynnFiles.com for information on media appearances, reviews, lectures, book signings, etc.

I appeared on CNN this afternoon to discuss Ted Kennedy's name appearing on a no-fly list. I have long supported efforts to put the senator on a no-drive list, but even as steadfast an opponent of the Massachusetts liberal as myself has no problem with him flying--so long as he's just a passenger. My debating partner was, of all people, former Republican Congressman Bob Barr (buy his new book here). A couple years back the congressman argued on my side when I appeared opposite Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins on Phil Donahue's ill-fated MSNBC show. We differed, however, in our approach to airport security.

Basically, my position on the Kennedy controversy is that there's no real controversy. Kennedy got hassled by security at an airport like millions of other Americans. Ted, welcome to the real world. Despite talk of his name appearing on a no-fly list, in no instance did the Transportation Security Agency prevent Senator Kennedy from flying.

I'm still a bit unclear whether Bob Barr objected to the whole idea of no-fly lists, or just this no-fly list. Barr argued that it's three years after 9/11 and the government still hasn't gotten its act together. There are instances in which this criticism seems fair. The big picture, however, is that it's three years after 9/11 and al Qaeda still has not been able to mount another major act of terrorism within our borders. This is not because the terrorists have stopped trying or had a change of heart about America. This is because more stringent security measures, including this imperfect no-fly list, have made it harder for the terrorists to execute their plans.

Are you a fan of Tucker Carlson? He's the guy with the bowtie on CNN's Crossfire. You may have also read his articles in the Weekly Standard. Along with Matt Labash, he is the only person closely associated with that magazine that I know of who has come out against the war in Iraq. He also hosts a new show on PBS called Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. I will be appearing as a guest on the program this Friday evening. The main guest, I am told, will be Paul Krugman. After Carlson interviews Krugman, I will appear with another panelist and the host to discuss a number of issues. Be sure to check your local listings and tune in this Friday night.

Numerous DC-area speaking opportunities have come my way in recent weeks. Two stand out. First, I'll be leading a book discussion of Bastiat's The Law on Monday. If you haven't read The Law, I've read it for you several times. I'm reading it again this weekend. Second, I'll be addressing Young America's Foundation's annual summer conference at a banquet on Tuesday evening. It's a students/interns-only event held at George Washington Universtity. I get to preview some of the themes that constitute Intellectual Morons, which comes out on September 21. I'm excited. Students at various colleges across the country comprise the audience. Within a few years, many attendees will be working within journalism, government, academia, and other opinion-shaping institutions. They are truly very important people, even if they don't come across that way now.

Through the power of the telephone, I spent an hour last night on radios across Southern California through KABC's Al Rantel Show. We discussed Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and then moved to the broader theme of the anti-American impulse on the Left that I covered in Why the Left Hates America. A couple of fringe types called in to the show, and Al did a clever thing. He posed a question, something like: Who served as the greater threat, menace, danger to the world, Saddam Hussein or George W. Bush? Neither caller could bring themselves to say Saddam, nor could they, if I heard correctly, opt for Osama bin Laden when his name was substituted for Hussein's.

Think of how much you despise the terrorist Osama bin Laden or the tyrant Saddam Hussein. Many American leftists harbor that same hate for George W. Bush. I know this not merely because two talk-radio callers said as much to Al Rantel. I know this from interviewing hundreds of anti-war protestors, many of whom have said the same thing to me. However much John Kerry rubs you the wrong way, you would have to be out of your mind to draw a moral equivalence between him and Saddam Hussein or him and Osama bin Laden. Kerry's hardcore base, however, imagines similarities between America's president, on the one hand, and al Qaeda's leader and the most famous defendant in Iraq, on the other.

This is just something to think about as November approaches.

I'll appear as a guest on The Al Rantel Show on KABC in Los Angeles tonight at 6 p.m. on the West Coast. We'll be discussing Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which I saw tonight in a packed theater of true believers in the Chevy Chase section of DC. I'll post my take on the film later today, so check back in to FlynnFiles for that. Al Rantel is an independent-minded conservative, and I always enjoy the intelligent discussion on his program. If you get KABC, tune in this evening.

I welcome readers of FlynnFiles.com to attend my lectures. Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program will be holding a lecture event for interns around our nation's capital on July 6, where I will discuss my forthcoming book Intellectual Morons and campus activism. I'll also be speaking at Leadership Institute's Student Publications School on July 31. I'm a veteran of a student publication at UMass, so I'm always eager to interact with students who do what I was doing a decade ago. They are far more advanced and talented than we were. Accuracy in Academia will be hosting a Capitol Hill mini-conference for DC-area interns on July 8. Authors Ben Shapiro, Mike Adams, and myself will be speaking. The event runs from noon to 3 p.m. in the Cannon House Office Building, Room 121. I go on at about 1:30 p.m. and will give a preview of my new book (it comes out September 21) and field questions for about a half hour. I'll be speaking at Colby College in Maine on October 27 and High Point University in North Carolina on November 11. Both events are sponsored by Young America's Foundation, free, and open to the public. If you live in Maine or North Carolina, I look forward to meeting you at one of these events.

I just returned to Washington (the one with cheap crack and lots of monuments) from the other Washington (the one with apples and grunge music). My event last night at the University of Washington concluded my travels to campuses for the 2003-2004 school year. No hecklers, no disruptions--it was a nice way to end the year. I have spoken at 25 schools in 15 states since the start of the school year. While a few events this semester featured some uninvited shouting from audience members, things have quieted down since last semester--when I was shouted down by a mob, the focus of a 'hate speech' inquiry, and subjected to unstable leftists crying and swearing during my lectures.

I speak at the University of Washington tonight. The event will be held at 7 p.m. in Gowan 301. The lecture is free, open to the public, and sponsored by Young America's Foundation and the school's College Republicans. If you're in the Seattle area, come out to the lecture and introduce yourself. This is the last of more than twenty campus lectures I have given during the 2003-2004 school year.

I spoke at Ohio University last night to a packed room. During my talk, students were generally respectful. The question and answer period, however, brought out some angry responses, mild heckling, and upset students who left in a huff. It also produced some good dialogue. If there was any question that conservative ideas need a stronger presence at a place like Ohio University, this op-ed piece erased it.

I speak tonight at Ohio University, which is apparently the oldest university west of the Appalachians. The lecture takes place at 7 p.m. in the Baker University Center and is sponsored by Young America's Foundation and the school's College Republicans. The event is free and open to the public, so if you live in the area drop by. A campus columnist is upset with me even though I haven't stepped foot on campus yet. It should be an interesting time.

I'm back. I had a successful trip to Ithaca College and Tulane University. At Ithaca, a professor heckled me throughout the question and answer period. Ironically, this was his way of objecting to my speech on the lack of intellectual diversity and tolerance on college campuses. The Tulane College Republicans sponsored me as part of its "Conservative Awareness Week," which curiously was mirrored by liberal events paid for by the school throughout the week. A Black Panther activist, for instance, spoke the evening of my talk, and Tulane hosted Molly Ivins earlier in the week.

Tulane is one of the prettier campuses in the South. It is located in the best neighborhood of any campus I have been to, and I've spoken at about 100 schools. An earlier visit to New Orleans prompted me to view it as one of the filthiest, most crime-ridden, disgusting cities in the United States. I've done a 180. The garden district and uptown New Orleans feature some of the prettiest homes and most beautiful architecture in America. There is more to New Orleans than the French Quarter.

Tomorrow I travel to Ithaca College. My speech will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Textor Hall. On Wednesday, I speak at Tulane University at 6:00 p.m. in Jones Hall Room 306. Both events are free, open to the public, and sponsored by Young America's Foundation.

Tune in to CNN this Sunday between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m. eastern time. I will be on CNN Sunday Morning to discuss the prospects of the new left-leaning talk radio network.

The idea works a little better in theory than it does in practice. The theory holds that a dearth of liberals in talk radio means that the market is ripe for alternative perspectives to the dominant conservatism. This doesn't sound particularly outlandish. But this theory has been tested before. Ask Jim Hightower or Mario Cuomo how their radio careers are going, and you begin to understand that liberalism just isn't in demand among radio listeners. I'm all for new perspectives, but I'm not sure that the market agrees in this instance.

Besides, with liberals dominating the print press and television news, isn't an assault on talk radio by progressives a bit redundant?

I will visit six campuses in the eastern half of the United States over the next six weeks. Next week, I visit Canisius College in Buffalo on the 29th, Wesley College in Delaware on the 31st, and SUNY-Cortland on the 3rd. On April 13th I speak at Ithaca College, followed by an event at Tulane University the next day. My final lecture of the semester will most likely take place at Ohio University on May 5th. If you live near one of these schools, drop by. All of these lectures are sponsored by Young America's Foundation.

I spoke to a mostly conservative crowd of about 70 today at Gettysburg College. This lecture marks the first time that I tested out new material for the speech that will support my new book due to hit stores in September.

My speech fell between talks by two figures on the right that I greatly admire: Professor Paul Gottfried of Elizabethtown College and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Other lectures at the Gettysburg Conservative Conference put on by the school's College Republicans focused on the Second Amendment and judicial tyranny. Despite redistricting placing him in the least Republican district of all incumbant Texas Republican House members, Congressman Paul reported that he has no opponent this Fall. This is good news to authentic conservatives and bad news to phonies and liberals.

My upcoming travels to college campuses include lectures at Gettysburg College (PA) on February 28, Canisius College (NY) on March 29, Wesley College (DE) on March 31, and SUNY-Cortland (NY) on April 3. The events include a post-lecture book-signing, and are usually free and open to the public. Campus lectures are usually exciting, but I can't guarantee that book-burners or administrators looking to ban me will show up to every event.