What Mad Cow Disease Tells Us About Brexit

What Mad Cow Disease Tells Us About Brexit, Weekly Standard Online, July 11, 2016, "If we want to understand why the EU was not very popular in Britain in 2016, the answer is simple: After 1995, the EU was never very popular in Britain. If we want, in turn, to understand the EU's long-run unpopularity in the U.K., we need to look at that longue durée, because the U.K. is reliably one of Europe's most Euroskeptic nations. But the fact is that, as far as British opinion since 1995 goes, there was nothing unusual about the conditions under which the 2016 referendum took place."