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

Olaudah Equiano’s Manumission: Regulatory Barriers to Freedom

02/12/2026 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

If one man may legally own another, then he should likewise have the right to disown this property. To deny this right by law involves simultaneously affirming the right of one human to own another as his property but not the right to stop owning another human.

Does Acts Show Early Christian Communism?

02/05/2026 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or communism, rather than private property, but this is mistaken and the evidence is within Acts itself.

Mises, Money, and Catallactics: The State “Theory” of Money Abandons Economics

01/29/2026 Mises Wire Joshua Mawhorter

Ironically, an acatallactic pseudo-theory of money that emerged from a school of thought that rejected theory in favor of an empirico-realistic, historical theory of money now finds it intellectually acceptable, not only to reject catallactic economic theory, but also empirical history.

Media

Olaudah Equiano’s Manumission: Regulatory Barriers to Freedom

02/13/2026 Joshua Mawhorter

Bad Bunny, Bad Jobs Revisions, and Trump’s Bad Immigration Operation in Minnesota

02/12/2026 Joshua Mawhorter Ryan McMaken Connor O'Keeffe

Joshua Mawhorter joins Ryan and Connor to talk about the dueling Superbowl Halftime Shows, the latest jobs report, and Trump’s deadly and counterproductive deportation operation in Minnesota.

Environmentalism is Anti-Humanism

01/09/2026 Joshua Mawhorter

Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you.