Blank Generation: Steven Levy’s ‘The Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius’

By Michael Grasso / August 11, 2026 The Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius By Steven Levy Prentice Hall, 1988 This review is based on the first edition of the book. To interested observers in the 1970s, Ira Einhorn was the paragon of the bleeding-edge, Age of Aquarius thinker. He founded free classes on psychedelics, conducted one of the first “Be-ins” on the East Coast, penned trend-spotting newsletters for corporate clients, and organized huge public events dedicated to environmental causes and the exploration of esoteric thought. In so doing, he opened the forbidding doors of the mainstream corporate American elite to the youthful vibes of the American counterculture. But Ira Einhorn was also a mentally unstable narcissist, a chronic abuser of women, and an eventual murderer who tried to foist off responsibility for his killing of long-time girlfriend Holly Maddux onto a purported conspiracy involving the intelligence community, a secret army of psychics, and U.S.…