Short answer: Not great. Bit of a mess. Long answer: What Happened Last week, Britain voted to leave the European Union. Liberal cosmopolitans, international financiers and their courtiers, and centrist technocrat types lost to nativists, nationalists, and a few anti-globalism leftists. This is lots of people’s fault, though most people blame some combination of the following: Racist voters Cynical demagogues (politicians, newspapers, etc.) Austerity-pushing, anti-democratic European Union leaders The vote revealed a deeply divided nation: London joined Northern Ireland and Scotland in voting remain. The rest of ... (full story)