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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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