2. That Glib and Oily Art

1. . Quoted in Anthony Zurcher, “The Strange Trump and Carson Phenomenon Explained,” November 15, 2015, BBC News Web site.

2. . Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.40.2.

3. . Ibid. 1.139.4.

4. . Aristotle, Art of Rhetoric 1.2.12. Later in Rhetoric, Aristotle also uses enthymeme more generically to mean dialectical argument.

5. . Ibid.

6. . Reported in www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22025035.

7. . Another contemporary rhetorical trope is actually named after one of the fathers of quantum mechanics. According to the Urban Dictionary, Schrödinger’s Douchebag consists of making sexist, racist, or otherwise bigoted remarks and deciding whether you were being serious or just joking only when you see how others react.

8. . BBC News report, www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22025035.

9. . Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, 4. 7.

10. . This was in the period during which the British were actively trying to help Saddam Hussein acquire weapons of mass destruction.

11. . President Xi Jinping, interview with the Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2015, www.wsj.com/articles/full-transcript-interview-with-chinese-president-xi-jinping-1442894700.

12. . Quoted in Josh Rogin, “Europeans Laugh as Lavrov Talks Ukraine,” Bloomberg View, February 7, 2015.