Response to Daniel Miller, “The Populist Fantasy: American Ethno-Nationalism and the Dysphoria of the Body Politic”

Abstract:This response to Daniel Miller’s theoretical-philosophical reflection on the nature of a democratic social body offers a critique anchored in an empirically grounded comparative framework. Incorporating various internationally recognized benchmarks of political freedoms and civil liberties into Miller’s already well-developed analytical framework, which draws substantially on queer theory, provides a potentially stronger normative foundation for the discussion.