‘Liberal’ has become a term of derision in US politics – the historical reasons are complicated
- Written by Russell Blackford, Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle

Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century American history. In Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals), he explores how the word liberal – and...