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 ...

Attorney-client privilege. Most people have heard of it, and most have a general idea it means. But what, exactly, is attorney-client privilege? What's its purpose? What does it cover? When does it ...

In Canada, there are practising patent agents and trademarks agents who are not lawyers. They are not admitted to any bar of any province or territory in Canada and are not members of any law society.

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 ...

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 ...

I am an old white guy trying to get my head around my white privilege and where it began. As best I can tell, feminist scholar Peggy McIntosh, senior research scientist of the Wellesley Centers for ...

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 ...

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 ...