In India, the number 9 taps love, peace, faith, among other important things. And if you play the U.S. lottery, lucky numbers seem to be 23, 11, and 9. Why does magical thinking appear in rituals?

whereas magical thinking, is not necessarily about luck, but just about, sort of, how something can cause something else, even when there's no, sort of, scientific evidence that those things would ...

Magical thinking is a disorder of thought ... even though all those things were fabulous. It was the authority. The authority of tone. There is much in Didion one might disagree with personally ...

When the Harvard economist Mihir Desai last week heralded the crypto crash as the culmination of a 15-year long stretch of “magical thinking” in capitalism, he didn’t call out the healthcare ...

What happens when your universe becomes unmoored? The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's award-winning autobiographical examination of grief, arrives on Broadway this spring in one of the ...

What happens when your universe becomes unmoored? The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's award-winning autobiographical examination of grief, arrives on Broadway this spring in one of the ...