“Careful and calm deliberation unties every knot!” a fly-fishing English friend once told me. I was reminded of these words in the aftermath of the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” referendum, when many in the European Union (though not in Britain) called for a swift divorce. I was also reminded of June 1992, when a narrow majority of Danish voters rejected the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum — a close parallel to what happened in Britain last month.
What lessons can we take from that earlier event? For starters, hurrying the process is cert...
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