Are you as exhausted as I am by the manipulative tone of today’s political scene? British author George Orwell blamed the English language for the ease with which it’s manipulated. That’s a bit like ...

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In a healthy conversation, people share ideas, listen, and find common ground. In a manipulative one, the goal isn't understanding—it's control. Manipulators use specific phrases and tactics to twist ...

Saul (Lying, Misleading, and What Is Said), a professor of the social and political philosophy of language at the University of Waterloo, analyzes in this cogent study two linguistic devices that ...