Canada’s Commonwealth Edge

…A new report by the futurist author Joel Kotkin called “The New World Order,” which highlights the lasting potency of the Anglosphere—even in this age of rising Chinese, India and Brazilian global reach. Kotkin acknowledges, of course, the growing clout of clusters of countries dominated by China and India, but he reminds us that the core English-speaking nations still account for a quarter of the world’s economy, more than any other “cohensive global grouping.