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Charlotte Twight’s Warning at 50: Is State Control Still Expanding?

A Landmark Symposium: America’s Emerging Fascist Economy at 50
On the 50th anniversary of Charlotte Twight’s influential America’s Emerging Fascist Economy, our Winter 2025/26 issue features a special symposium examining the book’s lasting relevance. Twight famously argued that the United States has moved toward a fascist economic system not through revolution, but through the steady expansion of the state—where private enterprise becomes less a source of prosperity and more an instrument of political control, justified in the name of the “national interest.”

 

Sound familiar?

 

As today’s economy strains under misguided protectionist policies, contributors to The Independent Review revisit Twight’s arguments with fresh eyes—and renewed concern. But this is no defeatist swan song. Alongside sharp critiques of state expansion, contributors offer practical recommendations for reform. Some even challenge Twight’s thesis outright, pointing to measures of economic freedom that suggest a more hopeful trajectory for the United States.

Whether you are a longtime admirer of Twight, a skeptical critic, or encountering her work for the first time, this issue offers insight, debate, and clarity!

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ARTICLES

Symposium on Charlotte Twight’s America’s Emerging Fascist Economy

By Christopher J. Coyne

Twight’s Thesis at Fifty: America’s Continuing Battle Against Fascism

By Robert M. Whaples

How Government Intervention Makes Prices and Wages Sticky

By Patrick Newman

STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS

Hayek Against Ujamaa

by Brayden Myers

A Cooperative Hospital

by Tz-Shiang Shia

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The Social Philosophers

By Robert Nisbet (new foreword by Luke Sheahan)

Reviewed by Jason Jewell

The Triumph of Economic Freedom

By Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux

Reviewed by Paul Mueller

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