Margaret Thatcher nearly singlehandedly restored Britain from its cradle-to-grave welfare state to a thriving economy. She believed that the socialism of her day was incompatible with the strong, productive, self-reliant, moral citizens she wanted the British people to be, and that freedom (economic and personal) was the only solution. Her conservatism was a moral stance, not a technocratic one.
Our latest guest, author and journalist Claire Berlinski, talks about the Iron Lady, why she matters and what she stood for. She suggests that were Thatcher and President Obama to meet, the former Prime Minister would “eat him for lunch.” Even more surprisingly, Berlinski takes offense to the notion that Sarah Palin might be compared to Thatcher. What are their similarities? “Sarah Palin is a woman; she’s from a small town; she’s a conservative. The comparison ends there.”
Berlinski goes on to discuss her past 6 years living in Istanbul, moderate Muslims and moderate Islam, and why Americans should be paying more attention to Turkey.
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