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 ...

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 ...

Anything that David Runciman does not know about the philosophy of politics is probably not worth knowing. That is quite the assertion but his podcasts are models of elegant and accessible ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...