James Miller is professor of Politics and Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research. He is the author most recently of Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to Our World (2018); and also the editor of the new English translation of Diogenes Laertius, The Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Other books include Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche (2011); The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993); Democracy is in the Streets— From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (1987); and Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy (1984).