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Liav Orgad’s idea of a two-stage process of the regulation of immigration and access to citizenship in The Cultural Defense of Nations appears sensible and on first sight largely agreeable. But a more careful positioning of the argument regarding democratic theory and sociological understandings of nationalism brings out aspects that problematize some of its key assumptions and that reveal a risk of counter-productivity. In this, the argument might be less original than claimed and the specific version of a liberal theory of cultural defense less fit for socio-culturally complex democratic societies, in particular within the European context. I will briefly touch upon three dimensions that seem to me problematic: the notions of majority culture and cultural defense; the notion of constitutional identity as used in the book; and the problem of constitutional populism. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Blokker, Paul funded by the government Cultural Rights Liberal Theory Majority Multicultural 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/cultural-majorities-constitutional-essentials-and-cosmopolitan-citizenship/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20160224-100536 160224 10.17176/20160224-100536 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)