A review by baguettekelly
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

2.5

Found this one a little hard to get through.  The content wasn’t quite what I was expecting based on the description and marketing — I thought it would dive deep into all of the weird irrational magic-adjacent stuff that’s made a resurgence in popular belief and try to figure out why (astrology, witchcraft, UFOs, this is a rich topic), but the book is a list of well-known cognitive biases with a lot of anecdotal sidebars.  I was excited for this after loving Cultish and kinda liking Wordslut, and am disappointed that I didn’t really learn anything new here.