What You Missed While You Were on Vacation

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.