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David Runciman

David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity Hall. His books include The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy (both Princeton). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books.

 

Articles

Joshua Cohen talks to David Runciman about his book How Democracy Ends.

David Runciman, Joshua Cohen

Tocqueville warned us about democratic fatalism. But as Steven Pinker shows, fatalism is a permanent feature of modern politics.

David Runciman

An interview with David Runciman on his book, The Confidence Trap.

David Runciman

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