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Joshua Mawhorter

Joshua Mawhorter is assistant editor of Mises.org. He was a summer fellow at the Mises Institute (2023) and a government/economics and US history teacher since 2016. Josh has a bachelor’s degree in political science from California State University, Bakersfield, a master’s in political science from Southern New Hampshire University, and a master’s in Austrian economics from the Mises Graduate School (2023). He has self-published a few books, including The First Constitution: The Articles of Confederation, Tyrannosaurus Debt: The Student Loan Crisis and How to Survive, and “An Austrian Critique of Modern Monetary Theory”, his thesis. He also enjoys teaching in the areas of theology, the Old Testament, church history, apologetics, and philosophy.

Articles

The Unjustified Conflict: Grant’s Memoirs on the Mexican-American War

12/04/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier—Ulysses Grant—knew better.

Warren Harding: A Sinner in the Hands of Angry Progressives

11/27/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can be centralized and become the dominant narrative for generations, shaping views on policy.

Hoover was an Economic Interventionist—That was the Problem!

11/20/2025 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

Even as historians have softened on their outlook on Hoover, they usually still manage to avoid the obvious connection between interventionism and lack of economic recovery.

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The Unjustified Conflict: Grant’s Memoirs on the Mexican-American War

12/05/2025 Joshua Mawhorter

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the lies from Washington.

Hobbes’s Accidental Case Against the State

11/07/2025 Joshua Mawhorter

If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it.

Recipes with Rothbard: What Chocolate Cake Can Teach About Economics

10/31/2025 Joshua Mawhorter

When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.

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