It’s the rhetorical equivalent of having your cake and eating it. No wonder politicians love it Sometimes an unfamiliar ancient Greek word can mask a rhetorical device that’s as commonplace as salt.

Here's a big bow-wow to President Bush, a dog guy. Or so I thought. He came all the way to California for a town-hall meeting over the weekend to do a little PR on his tax cut, but he failed to ...

Yesterday’s post addressed the use of litotes in California’s broker-dealer suitability rule. Litotes can be an effective rhetorical device, but as Judge Frank H. Easterbrook observed, it is also ...

It’s someone’s job to name new medications. Drug Company A approaches Marketing Company B and says, “Hey, we’ve got this new drug. It makes people happy in the short run, but they’ll still have to ...