On the Scene: Atlanticists in Real America

SPRINGTIME in Arizona. The temperature is a gentle 104 in the shade—”still mild,” locals say sadistically—but the political climate is even hotter, for the spirit of Margaret Thatcher is abroad in the land.

Lady Thatcher, appearing, if anything, invigorated by the Labour landslide in Britain, has already adapted as easily as her hero Winston Churchill to being a prophet in the wilderness and has chosen the second New Atlantic Initiative conference held in the neo-Aztec corridors of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Arizona Biltmore to deliver her latest clarion call against the “dangerous complacency” of the Western world.

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SPRINGTIME in Arizona. The temperature is a gentle 104 in the shade—”still mild,” locals say sadistically—but the political climate is even hotter, for the spirit of Margaret Thatcher is abroad in the land.

Lady Thatcher, appearing, if anything, invigorated by the Labour landslide in Britain, has already adapted as easily as her hero Winston Churchill to being a prophet in the wilderness and has chosen the second New Atlantic Initiative conference held in the neo-Aztec corridors of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Arizona Biltmore to deliver her latest clarion call against the “dangerous complacency” of the Western world.