The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of their day – makes you feel a little more learned than you did before ...

David Runciman’s The Handover waves off ideas of killer robots, and argues that states and corporations were the smart machines of their era A bold voice on geopolitics and economics, Sherelle ...

Winston Churchill famously stated that “democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms,” and Runciman, professor of politics at Cambridge University (The Politics of Good ...

Getting through Brexit successfully will probably require a certain amount of insouciance. As so often in politics, the roles seem to have been handed out the wrong way round. May would have been a ...

“Talking Politics” host David Runciman’s new podcast, “Past Present Future”, will launch on 27th April in partnership with the London Review of Books and will “explore where ideas come from, what they ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Late in this book of biographical essays, David Runciman discusses how Barack Obama took consolation from the ...

In The Confidence Trap David Runciman argues that when democracies respond to crises they are “caught between their impulse to precipitate action and their instinct to wait.” This in-between nature of ...

Should the voting age be lowered to six years old? One academic believes so, arguing it would “reinvigorate democracy” and counterbalance the power of older voters. David Runciman, a Cambridge ...

When the Australian cricketers Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were exposed tampering with the ball during last year’s test series in South Africa there was, along with all the faux ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Runciman heads the politics department at the University of Cambridge and is ...