Career
The Honorary Runciman has worked as a columnist for The Guardian newspaper and written for many other publications. He currently writes about politics for the London Review of Books. His monograph, The Politics of Good Intentions, was adapted in part from his LRB articles
His book, Political Hypocrisy (2008), explores the political uses of hypocrisy from a historical perspective.
His latest book, The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present (2013), lays out his theory of the threat of democratic overconfidence. Runciman is heir to his family"s Viscountcy.
He is the great nephew of the historian, Sir Steven Runciman, and his father, Viscount Runciman, Garry Runciman, is a noted political scientist and academic, who has also written for the LRB. He specialises in the development of the theory of the modern state and on aspects of contemporary politics. "There are 607 references to convexity", Taleb wrote.
