I am among the most privileged people on the planet: a well-educated, healthy, tall, white, heterosexual male. I am not sure which of those adjectives provide me with more privilege than the others ...

White privilege is not an indictment against hard work or denial of personal hardship. And white privilege does not mean, as conservative commentator John Myers claims, that “everything is whitey’s ...

In her Emily Litella guise, Gilda Radner often posed the question, “What’s all this fuss I hear about …?” From one “Saturday Night Live” week to the next, it would be one thing and then another. In ...

Wanda Sykes told a story about walking with a white friend on a hot day and slipping into a corner store for a couple of bottles of cold water. The friend opened her bottle and started drinking it on ...

In the past decade or so, liberals and progressives have evolved a new language to talk about social inequality. This new rhetoric — which is, notably, rejected by many on the left — differs from the ...

For those situations, the joint defense or common interest privilege comes into play. However, while many attorneys may be vaguely aware of those doctrines or might presume that they will ...

What follows is for the benefit of one William James O’Reilly Jr. — “Bill” to his fans. Last summer, Mr. O’Reilly, a pundit for Fox “News,” spent time talking about white privilege and his contention ...