Brexit Day is now Oct. 31, the European Union granting the United Kingdom yet another stay of Brexit-cution, which was supposed to have taken place March 29 and then April 12. Let’s leave aside that Oct. 31 is Halloween. I don’t think the E.U. is ironic enough to have chosen that day for its gallows humor. And indeed Nov. 1 is the day the new president of the European Commission is set to take office, so presumably the E.U. needs to have this resolved by then. But will it be resolved?
Read MoreJean-Simon Berthélemy’s “Alexander Cuts the Gordian Knot” (1767), oil on canvas. École nationale superiéure des Beaux-Arts. Some say Alexander the Great saw where the knot was pinned and so released it; others, that he impatiently cut it with his sword. Either way, he fulfilled the prophecy that whoever unraveled the knot would become lord of Asia. Where’s an Alexander now to solve the United Kingdom’s tangled Brexit crisis?