I remember that the WSJ op-ed page regularly published articles by people associated with the Mises Institute, including pieces by Mark Brandly, Shawn Ritenour, and Hans Hoppe. By about 1998, however, Jeff Tucker told me that the Austrians/libertarians were being shut out, thanks to Max Boot.

A day or so after the 9/11 attacks, Boot wrote an article in which he said that in response to the carnage, the Unites States should set out to establish a far-flung empire around the world. While I do not subscribe to the theories that 9/11 was an “inside job” led by George W. Bush himself, it is quite clear that the WSJ editorialists and other assorted neoconservatives were using the attacks as a fig leaf to cover their larger “national greatness” vision. It all has been downhill from there….