Last Exit Magazine
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November 2008
John Hagelin
As panic gripped Wall Street in the final days before the election, Dr. John Hagelin, physics professor and director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Maharishi University of Management and former presidential candidate, announced his own billion-dollar bailout plan. In the heart of the New York’s financial district, his organization opened the Global Financial Capital of New York, aimed at teaching bankers to meditate and thereby saving us all from financial ruin.
[published: November 22, 2008]
Hope in the Streets of New York
When the speech ended, I asked the cabbie his name. “Mamadou”. Mamadou was born in Guinea. He immediately informed me that I would not be paying the fare. “I even just took a man to New Jersey and didn’t let him pay either. This is the greatest country on earth that you could elect a black man president!”
[published: November 11, 2008]
Modern Love Is Not
Love is pain but Modern Love, as published every Sunday in the New York Times, is agony. An inventory of what needs to change.
[published: November 01, 2008]
The 25th Year After
The Day After, The Road, and the long cold night of November 1983.
[published: November 01, 2008]