I’ve gotten an unusually large number of emails like this:

Jonah,
One would be hard-pressed to discover that you were speaking at Emory tomorrow. I’ve scoured Emory’s website and its event list but you are nowhere to be found. Perhaps it’s because the College Republicans are sponsoring you and not the University? Or it’s a last minute speaking engagement? Whatever the case, I’m disappointed (but certainly not surprised) that you’re not listed. Hopefully you’ll get a good turnout, and hopefully I can make it (I’m an alumna who escaped Emory’s liberal indoctrination despite having Reagan-bashing professors and being repeatedly shown Michael Moore movies in my undergraduate classes).
Best of luck tomorrow evening!

Me: The simple truth is this is nothing new. As readers can attest from my fairly regular and hopefully not too annoying speaking gig announcements, I visit a lot of campuses. I’d guess that I make the official campus calendar 15% of the time. Sometimes I think it’s just because the College Republicans or some other group doesn’t follow through and get me on the events calendar. But that can’t always be the explanation. It’s particularly odd because the majority of the time I speak on a college campus — even when debating a liberal — I’m told that I’m the first conservative they’ve had there for a while and that I was brought in for “balance.” You’d think if that were the case, the various administrations would at least want some credit for providing equal time. Even though, even a brief perusal of almost any college or university’s events calendar will quickly show that they could have the entire masthead of National Review speak month after month and it still wouldn’t equal balance. Not only are “political speakers” overwhelmingly liberal at most schools, but the allegedly non-political speakers, poets, environmentalists, novelists etc are from what I can tell left-leaning as well. Many of them no doubt are worthwhile speakers who have much to share about their fields, but the idea that simply inviting one or two objectively conservative speakers every couple years provides ideological balance is just absurd. The joke is even bigger when you discover as I have at numerous schools that many professors tell their students they shouldn’t go hear conservative speakers.