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 ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...