Oxymorons are common in everyday language, especially in expressions we use without much thought. We might say something is “awfully good,” “bittersweet,” “an original copy,” or that “less is more.” ...

I fail to understand why Jonah Goldberg went the route of writing, “if voting is virtuous, its virtue — like all virtue — derives from it being voluntary. Compelled virtue is an oxymoron” (“Jonah ...