David Runciman is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include late-nineteenth and twentieth century political thought; theories of the state and of political representation; and various aspects of contemporary political philosophy and contemporary politics. His books include How Democracy Ends (Profile, 2019) and Political Hypocrisy (Princeton University Press, 2018). He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books and other newspapers and he presents the podcasts Past Present and Future.