David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He writes regularly about politics and current affairs for a wide range of publications including the London Review of Books. The author of several books, he also hosted the widely-acclaimed podcast Talking Politics, along with the series ‘History of Ideas’. Past Present Future* is his new weekly podcast, where he is exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. *Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future.
Books
The Confidence Trap
A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
2013
A História das Ideias
Igualdade, Justiça e Revolução
2024
Affidarsi
Come abbiamo ceduto il controllo della nostra vita a imprese, Stati e intelligenze artificiali
2024
Anyone for gulli-danda?
2020
Confronting Leviathan
2021
The Politics of Good Intentions
History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order
2006
Where Power Stops
The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers
2019
The Handover
How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
2023
Political Hypocrisy
The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond
2008
How Democracy Ends
2018
Politics
Ideas in Profile
2014
