John Mearsheimer on Not Even Clever Fools

Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 8 October 2025, I was on Glenn Diesen’s podcast talking mainly about the failure of the elites in the West to act in strategically smart or morally correct ways in their dealings with the Gaza genocide and the Ukraine war. Many trees...

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End the President’s Caribbean Murder Spree

W.J. Hennigan makes the mistake of accepting Trump’s framing of his Caribbean murder spree as an armed conflict: The Trump administration told Congress this week that the United States is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. The average American knows...

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John Mearsheimer on Israel’s Lawyers

Reprinted from John's Substack: In May 2005, Aaron David Miller, an American who has a passionate attachment to Israel and was one of President Bill Clinton’s advisors at the Camp David negotiations in the summer of 1999, published a remarkable op-ed in the Washington...

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