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April 10, 2013 11:00 AM Margaret Thatcher and AIDS: Harm Reduction Heroine

I’ve been following my left-liberal friends’ reaction to Margaret Thatcher’s death. I take it they’re not huge fans of her historical legacy. I’m not such a big fan myself. But one aspect of her legacy deserves some notice. The Thatcher...

By Harold Pollack

April 09, 2013 11:19 AM Thatcherism Retrospective

Margaret Thatcher, RIP. I find I have very little to say about her. What matters about Thatcher, or at any rate about Thatcherism, is that there really was a significant change among elites about the power and efficacy of markets....

By Jonathan Bernstein

March 15, 2013 11:40 AM What UK Health Care Gets Right

A colleague alerted me to a piece in British Medical Journal News discussing a presentation on the National Health Service, the health care system in the United Kingdom. You know – the one that’s totally run by the government. Here’s...

By Aaron Carroll

January 28, 2013 10:36 AM David Cameron’s EU Magical Mystery Tour

David Cameron has just taken a colossal gamble with the future of his and my country and of Europe. In a speech delivered at the Bloomberg offices in London on 23 January – symbolic of the Tories’ true heartland, the...

By James Wimberley

January 23, 2013 2:00 PM Will the British EU Referendum be an Inside-Out Version of the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia?

Earlier today David Cameron made public what had been speculated for a while now: if the Conservatives are re-elected to another term in office, then the UK will hold an in/out referendum on EU membership in 2017 or 2018. A...

By Joshua Tucker