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Democracy won the 20th century. But has its success bred lethal complacency in the 21st?

We never know who is going to rule but the beauty of democracy is that we know we can always get rid of them. So why wouldn’t we fight like blazes to preserve it?

The Guardian - AU

The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world

The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of their day – makes you feel a little more learned than you did before

The Guardian - UK

The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around

A spinoff from the podcast of the same name, this potted philosophical primer fails to live up to its title

The Guardian - UK

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Trump beating Biden in 2020 would have made the world a better place, says political expert

A different result would mean that ‘American politics would now be moving on’, David Runciman told Hay Festival audiences

The Independent UK

‘Trump’s brain is rotting in front of us,’ says American professor

Academic and writer Sarah Churchwell also said that to claim that Joe Biden is as bad as Trump is ‘appalling’ and ‘dangerous’

The Independent UK

Liz Truss book says husband predicted premiership ‘would all end in tears’

Short-lived PM also says she anticipated mini-budget ‘turbulence’ and compares herself to Brian Clough

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: questions I want answered

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

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‘When I heard the first episode, I almost fell over’: it’s Guardian readers’ best podcasts 2023

From hilarious profiles of Disneyland to awe-inspiringly researched true crime shows – and Gary Lineker’s long-awaited podcasting debut – here are your most-loved shows of the year

The Guardian - UK

The Handover by David Runciman review – is the future out of our control?

Surveying everything from hunter gatherers to Elon Musk, the Cambridge politics professor debates whether our fate is sealed by the machines we’ve created

The Guardian - UK

The best politics podcasts of 2023: what the critics say

When it comes to British podcasting, politics seems to be king, said Patricia Nicol in The Sunday Times. Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s “The Rest is Politics” consistently tops the charts, and now has an interview offshoot show, “Leading”. “The News Agents” (with Lewis Goodall, Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel)…

The Week

New Zealand’s supreme court has forced voting age on to agenda, exposing absurd arguments for status quo

The newly empowered supreme court has blown up the long-running debate on youth voting, but parliament has shrugged off its intervention

The Guardian - AU

Being ‘economical with the truth’ has a long history in British politics – but enough is enough

Liz Truss’s claim that tax cuts will reduce inflation are eerily reminiscent of Boris Johnson’s infamous style, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

PayPal’s Peter Thiel may be a ‘genius’, but I’m still not champing at the bitcoin

People are confusing wealth and intelligence if they read too much into the tech entrepreneur’s cheerleading for the cryptocurrency

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