E209 - White American Liberals, Pt 1 w/ Kevin Schultz

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content! Kevin Schultz, Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, joins the program to talk about his new book Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History. In this first part of the discussion, they get into liberalism’s consistent spirit yet inconsistent character, the transition from progressivism to liberalism in America in the early 20th century, FDR’s use of the word “liberal” as a sort of marketing tool, the height of the “white liberal,” William F. Buckley and the modern American conservative movement, the New Left’s opposition to “the liberal order,” the perception of white liberals in the civil rights movement, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.3	And then... Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to know. Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige.
1:05.4	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson. And we are both very excited to welcome to the
1:12.1	podcast today. Kevin Schultz, Kevin's a professor and also the chair of the Department of History
1:17.8	at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And we've invited him to talk about his recent book,
1:24.3	just published, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals, Including White Liberals, A History. Great title, Kevin. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. I'm delighted to be here. I mean, what a hell of a title. One of the best we've had on the show. Really, really good. I guess the first question is just, what made you want to write about this? Are you a white
1:45.6	liberal? Are many of your best friends, white liberals? Why this topic in this particular framework?
1:52.5	Well, like many Americans, I too was sort of stunned and concerned by the rise of political
1:58.8	polarization in the United States. And it's been around
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