David Runciman taught 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.
Books in order of publication:
Pluralism and the Personality of the State. Cambridge University Press – 1997
The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order. Princeton University Press – 2009
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond. Princeton University Press – 2010
Representation. John Wiley & Sons – 2013
Politics: Ideas in Profile. Profile Books – 2014
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present. Princeton University Press – 2015
How Democracy Ends. Profile Books – 2018
Where Power Stops. Profile Books – 2019
Confronting Leviathan : a history of ideas. London. – 2021
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs. Profile Books – 2023
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