Canada’s NAFTA negotiator has now demanded that new chapters be inserted to the agreement which reflect the Trudeau government’s “commitment to gender equality and . . . improving our relationship with indigenous peoples.”
Harvard Business School called for applicants for a faculty position in “entrepreneurial leadership and organization.” Applicants might have backgrounds in sociology or psychology among other disciplines. One hopes the position will be tenured, lest the risk-averse fail to apply.
Intel, Apple, IBM, and other companies have agreed to Chinese demands to turn over their intellectual property in order to gain access to China’s market. Lenin’s embalmed corpse was seen to smile: he had said “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them.” Now it’s chips.
The New York Times reports that blacks and hispanics are more under-represented at the nation’s top colleges than they were 35 years ago, when affirmative action started.
Canada announced that its much-trumpeted meritocratic immigration plan was producing too few visas for women, and that plan would be amended to correct that under-representation.
The chief of London’s Metropolitan Police, Craig Mackey, announced that 999 calls (the British 911) from people who speak good English will go to the back of the queue. Foreigners will be treated as “vulnerable” and given priority.
The president’s war on the Trump administration continued. Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser, was previously called a “globalist,” (not a good thing to be in an “America First” administration) Rex Tillerson was told that he “just doesn’t get it, he’s totally establishment.” Now, after Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross negotiated a deal with Chinese over steel,the president was left screaming “I want tariffs. And I want someone to bring me some tariffs. For the past six months, the same group of geniuses comes in here all the time and I tell them, ‘Tariffs. I want tariffs.” And the president chewed out chief of staff John Kelly in a way the former general told acquaintances he had not been spoken to in 35 years. Further reports from the battlefront will follow as the war of Trump versus the Trump administration unfolds.
