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Margaret Thatcher

African American men sitting on benches in a photograph in Great Britain | Vanley Burke, Young Men on See-Saw, Handsworth Park, Birmingham, 1984, printed 2021, gelatin silver print, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2022.112.1

Art

Photos Show the Transformation of Great Britain

A new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art displays how the U.K. changed in the 1970s and '80s.

Christine Hall | 2.11.2023 8:00 AM

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Media

The Press Idolizes Politicians. Instead, It Needs To Hold Them Accountable.

Newspapers deserve a great deal of credit for the expansion of freedom over the past 200 years. But the media have lost credibility.

Ira Stoll | 10.17.2022 5:10 PM

Candidates for Leader of the Conservative Party Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt, and Rishi Sunak superimposed on top of green, yellow, and orange circles respectively. A picture of Margaret Thatcher is to their right, superimposed on a gray circle. | Illustration: Lex Villena, Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire, Victoria Jones/ZUMA Press/Newscom, Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar/Newscom

United Kingdom

Margaret Thatcher Looms Large in British P.M. Race

Both major candidates to replace Boris Johnson have branded themselves as heirs to the neoliberal icon’s ideological legacy.

Eric Bazail-Eimil | 7.21.2022 3:25 PM

neoliberalism | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

Neoliberalism

It's the End of the Neoliberal Era, and We Still Don't Know What Neoliberalism Is

Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but "neoliberalism" is an especially tangled case.

Jesse Walker | 2.19.2022 6:00 AM

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Reason Podcast

Billy Bragg Wants Three-Dimensional Freedom. But Can We Afford That?

In his new manifesto The Three Dimensions of Freedom, the veteran punk rocker calls out libertarians for focusing solely on economic freedom. Is his case worth buying?

Nick Gillespie | 10.23.2019 4:15 PM

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Politics

Letters and Reaction

Reason Staff | 9.30.2013 7:00 AM

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Politics

How Thatcher Defeated Mitterrand

Lessons from the late prime minister's decisive victory in the war of economic ideas.

Matt Welch | 5.8.2013 10:30 AM

Politics

How Margaret Thatcher Advanced Women's Liberation

Feminists should celebrate the iconic British leader.

Cathy Young | 4.20.2013 8:00 AM

World

Rupert Murdoch Donates to Thatcher Charity

Calls the former British prime minister an "inspiration"

Reason Staff | 4.19.2013 7:32 AM

World

Margaret Thatcher's Funeral Begins

Being held in St. Paul's Cathedral

Reason Staff | 4.17.2013 7:00 AM

Politics

White House Sends Low-Profile Delegation to Thatcher Funeral

No serving officials are included

Reason Staff | 4.16.2013 2:52 PM

Politics

Sens. Reid and Schumer Blocking Senate Tribute to Thatcher

Republican-led House has already paid tribute to the Iron Lady

Reason Staff | 4.15.2013 12:44 PM

Culture

Popularity of Famous Anti-Witch Song Skyrockets with Thatcher's Death

Classy!

Reason Staff | 4.12.2013 1:45 PM

Politics

Johnny Rotten Criticizes Gloating Over Thatcher's Death

No fan of Maggie, but he has some class

Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 2:52 PM

Politics

Was Margaret Thatcher Really Responsible for *Every* Song in '80s Britpop? And If So, Don't We Owe Her Big Time?

Nick Gillespie | 4.11.2013 10:40 AM

World

Britain Not Inviting Argentinian President to Thatcher Funeral

Because of the Falklands

Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 8:20 AM

Politics

Milton Friedman on How Francois Mitterrand (and Failed Lefty Economics) Helped Re-elect Margaret Thatcher

Matt Welch | 4.10.2013 9:37 AM

Politics

How Thatcher Liberated Western Europe

Even while saying "No. No. No," the famous Euro-skeptic helped the continent say yes to much-needed reforms.

Matt Welch | 4.9.2013 1:00 PM

Culture

Maggie's Farm: Margaret Thatcher in Popular Culture

Thatcher in music and TV

Jesse Walker | 4.9.2013 12:50 PM

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Politics

Thatcher's Death Prompts Street Parties and Gleeful Tweets

Matthew Feeney | 4.9.2013 10:30 AM

World

Arrests at British Street Parties Celebrating Death of Margaret Thatcher

Stay classy!

Reason Staff | 4.9.2013 9:32 AM

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Margaret Thatcher

A.M. Links: Public Sector Union Membership Down in Wisconsin, Obama Approves Military Aid to Somalia, Patriot Missiles Deployed in Tokyo

Matthew Feeney | 4.9.2013 9:00 AM

Policy

Margaret Thatcher Predicted Euro Crisis

Knew weaker nations would come calling on Germany

Reason Staff | 4.8.2013 7:00 PM

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Margaret Thatcher

Without Discouraged Workers Unemployment Would Be 11.1 Percent, IRS and ATF Want To Snoop on You, Marijuana Attracts Big Bucks: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 4.8.2013 4:30 PM

Politics

Thatcher To Receive Ceremonial Funeral With Military Honors

She specifically rejected the idea of a state funeral, like that given monarchs and Churchill

Reason Staff | 4.8.2013 2:44 PM

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Policy

Margaret Thatcher Decentralized the British Economy but Centralized Politics

Matthew Feeney | 4.8.2013 2:10 PM

Culture

Margaret Thatcher Is No Hugo Chavez

You can tell by the responses to their deaths

Ed Krayewski | 4.8.2013 12:48 PM

Politics

The Real Thatcher and the Symbolic Thatcher

Behind the icon

Jesse Walker | 4.8.2013 12:28 PM

Margaret Thatcher

Timeless Quotations from Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Bailey | 4.8.2013 12:27 PM

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher on How Privatization Restarted Britain's "Enterprise Society"

Reason Staff | 4.8.2013 11:30 AM

Politics

Margaret Thatcher: How I Privatised Britain and Rebooted the "Enterprise Society"

The Iron Lady explains it all in her own words.

Margaret Thatcher | 4.8.2013 11:30 AM

Politics

How Margaret Thatcher Brought Economic Freedom to Britain

Remembering the late prime minister who transformed Britain's economy.

Ira Stoll | 4.8.2013 10:15 AM

Politics

Margaret Thatcher on the Morality of Science

Peter Suderman | 4.8.2013 9:20 AM

Politics

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady in Fact and Fiction

Nick Gillespie | 4.8.2013 9:13 AM

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Margaret Thatcher

A.M. Links: Margaret Thatcher Dead, Two Killed in Clashes Outside Christian Church in Cairo, NASA Wants a Second Moon

Ed Krayewski | 4.8.2013 9:00 AM

Politics

Margaret Thatcher Dead at 87

Former British Prime Minister died following a stroke

Reason Staff | 4.8.2013 7:59 AM

Policy

Thatcher's Therapeutic State?

Jesse Walker | 6.25.2009 1:43 PM

Culture

The Good Kind of Pirates

Jesse Walker | 4.17.2009 1:17 PM

Margaret Thatcher

Maggie for President

Robert Poole | 10.1.1988 12:00 PM

Privatization

Buying Out of Socialism

The Thatcher administration has found a sure-fire way to reduce big government—sell it to the people.

Madsen Pirie | 1.1.1986 12:00 PM

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