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Politics

Changing Times

By Matthew Yglesias
July 30, 2008

Henry Farrell finds himself surprised to see "so little of the usual bombast" in the recent Phoenix Initiative report from CNAS. In general, I think it's a pretty remarkable document for typifying how the boundaries of what counts as a mainstream view have shifted over the past few years in a very positive direction. It's been, at times, a frustrating process but there are real result.