There are days when I envy my colleagues who teach a standard western philosophy curriculum. Students do not show up to their office hours in tears because they have realized the shortcomings of substance dualism. When an audible episode of student resistance occurs in their classrooms, it is...

“Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness...