One of the many hearses that ply Hollywood Boulevard is different from all the others. The long gray Cadillac sports a sunroof, air-conditioning, and a cargo of live bodies, not dead ones. The vehicle is the flagship of Grave Line Tours, and every day its driver leads his seven passengers, each with a window seat,...
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Live from San Diego, It’s Vladimir Posner
On any Wednesday night, there’s plenty to do in San Diego, or “America’s Finest City,” as it is billed. But tonight the locals pack the University of California lecture hall to hear Vladimir Posner, the Soviet Union’s most famous journalist. (Since it has often been pointed out that “Soviet journalist” is oxymoronic, we won’t get...
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American Piety, Then and Now
“All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book [the Bible]. But for it we could not know right from wrong.” —Abraham Lincoln “The Cosby Show is the greatest teacher of morals in American society.” —Sheldon Hackney, president, University of Pennsylvania “America was born a Christian nation. America was born...
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Fraud in Belgrade
In a century of socialist failure, Yugoslavia has shown remarkable staying power as a model of “socialism with a human face,” an “independent” Communist country that actually works. But is it independent, and does it work? Last year, 14 émigrés and dissidents from Yugoslavia got together to discuss the state of their native land. Yugoslavia:...