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He Told Us So

A veteran contrarian on why free trade is failing

A Moral Absolutist

Who was Rudolf Vrba?

Return of the Robber Barons

Chrystia Freeland asks if we can tell “makers” from “takers” among the new super-rich

David Layton

David Layton is a freelance writer. His latest novel, Kaufmann & Sons, will be published by HarperCollins in the spring of 2016.

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Born to Leave

For generations, migration has been a Chinese way of life May 2015
Unless you’re Native American, you came from someplace else. So said U.S. president Barack Obama in a speech on immigration urging his fellow Americans to consider that, when it comes to new immigrants seeking a better life, “most of us used to be them.” This point should be obvious to Canadians who, like Americans, belong to a country that was founded and forged by waves of immigrants arriving on its…