Mises Institute
Saturday, February 7, 2026
There’s never been anything wrong with communal living and communal property, so long as it is done voluntarily. And people have done it voluntarily throughout history. It only becomes a problem when the state forces it on everyone in a manner of the state’s choosing. Some people still can’t tell the difference. Joshua Mawhorter explains ([link removed]) .
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Does Acts Show Early Christian Communism?
Joshua Mawhorter
Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seems 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.
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Don’s Rights Argument Is a Lemon
Jim Fedako
Needless to say, Don Lemon does not understand the First Amendment, let alone Rothbard’s property rights argument regarding speech.
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Is Bitcoin Fiat Money?
Bob applies Mises’s taxonomy of money and the regression theorem to Bitcoin.
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Everyone Agrees Our Elites Are Terrible, So Why Are We Stuck with Them?
Mediocre and malicious "elites" aren’t a glitch.
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The Giffen Good
Has silver become a “Giffen good,” where higher prices create higher demand?
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