Spending The Left's magical thinking By Robert Tracinski November 19, 2021 02:35 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Spending The Left's magical thinking By Robert Tracinski November 19, 2021 02:35 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print One of the key things I learned from reading Ayn Rand is that many arguments that are supposedly about politics aren’t really about politics. They’re about something deeper. They’re about philosophy, and sometimes about very abstract and foundational issues in philosophy. Often, they are a projection of basic assumptions about the nature of reality (the branch of philosophy called “metaphysics”) or the means by which we know the truth (“epistemology”). The most common of those projections is “magical thinking,” a term taken from psychiatry but with deeper philosophical roots. It is the implicit assumption that the law of cause...