John Mearsheimer: Smotrich Explains the Genocide

On 28 August 2025, I was on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano. We talked about the never-ending nonsense that Western elites purvey about how to end the Ukraine war as well as the state of the Israeli genocide and the possibility that Israel might attack Iran...

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John Mearsheimer: Am I ‘Morally Deranged’?

On 18 August 2025, I appeared on UnHerd with Freddie Sayers to talk about Ukraine’s future in the wake of the Putin-Trump meeting. Immediately thereafter, Freddie interviewed Matthew Syed, a columnist for the Sunday Times in London. He and I have fundamentally...

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An Important Message From John Mearsheimer

Dear Antiwar.com Reader, There are two problems in the United States these days and they are closely related. The first problem is that the Biden Administration is in deep trouble on the foreign policy front and the trouble is almost certainly going to get worse. The...

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John Mearsheimer Interview on Gaza and Ukraine

From John's Substack: I did another interview with Freddie Sayers on 12 December 2023. Much of it focuses on my substack article on Gaza: “Death and Destruction” Freddy questions me on whether a realist like me can offer moral judgments on another state’s behavior —...

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