This key decision of the Continental Congress matters because the way a war is fought affects the outcomes; the choice to fight like a state means either losing or winning like a state.
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.
Media
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Charles Lee: The Alternative “George Washington” You’ve Probably Never Heard Of -
“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism
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The Public Goods Circular Argument
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The Great Reversal: How Social Contract Theory Became State Apologetics
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Hobbes’s Self-Defeating Theory
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Hobbes’s State: “Why Are You Hitting Yourself?”
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The Luck Fallacy and Luck Egalitarianism
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Stuff that Fed Officials Say -
Jesus and the Christian Socialist’s Problem of Evil
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A Note on “Currency” in Colonial America
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Barter, Media of Exchange, and Colonial America
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Atlanta, TSA, and a Test Case for Interventionist Non-Intervention
