The “attorney-client privilege” may be the most well-known and misunderstood legal principle. Both attorneys and clients often make broad assumptions about its scope and application. When these ...

According to the woman behind "check your privilege," the closest thing we have to a racial slur against straight white men, our debate over the advantages society grants some and not others hasn't ...

In 2015, Lisa Arnold, Rachel Buddeberg, Christina Campbell, and I created this checklist of marital privileges. (The names are listed alphabetically.) I still really like it — not the fact that ...

The year 2014 has been a big one for critical theories and modern social justice movements — feminism, LGBT rights, etc. — at least in terms of gaining Internet traction, and a big part of that has ...

You have probably heard of the “privilege walk.” It is a task that is used in many classrooms to illustrate what it means to say that some people are more privileged than others. A group of ...

Months ago, I witnessed a Black man attempting to censor a Black woman’s writing. He told her there was no need to write a “divisive” piece because he’s already speaking up for Black women. What this ...

Regarding the editorial of Nicole Russell, author of the article "Conservatives are Happier Than Liberals" on June 29, please consider checking your privilege. A common current definition of the word ...

I am a six-foot-tall, able-bodied, reasonably attractive white man. I am also gay, grew up in an unenlightened, intolerant culture, am a survivor of childhood physical and emotional abuse and neglect, ...

[This article is co-authored – in alphabetical order – by Lisa Arnold, Rachel Buddeberg, Christina Campbell, and Bella DePaulo. We are cross-posting it on all of our blogs.] "White privilege" and ...