In his latest book, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals, Kevin M. Schultz takes a close look at the origins and ill-fated evolution of the term "liberal." Hardly an accident, the demonization of liberalism by the conservative right wing and progressive left wing, alike, was what he refers to as a political “assassination…coldhearted, deliberate, and designed to transfer power in America.”  From Franklin Delano Roosevelt—“the first white liberal”—to neoliberal America, Schultz traces the history of liberalism and its distortion into a sort of political hobgoblin. In his talk, Prof. Schultz will walk us through this history, telling us what the past can teach us about the present...and the future. Is it time to give up liberalism?