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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
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** Symposium on Charlotte Twight’s America’s Emerging Fascist Economy ([link removed])
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** By Christopher J. Coyne
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** Twight’s Thesis at Fifty: America’s Continuing Battle Against Fascism ([link removed])
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** By Robert M. Whaples
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** How Government Intervention Makes Prices and Wages Sticky ([link removed])
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** By Patrick Newman
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** STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS
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** Hayek Against Ujamaa ([link removed])
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** by Brayden Myers
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** A Cooperative Hospital ([link removed])
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** by Tz-Shiang Shia
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** BOOK REVIEWS
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** The Social Philosophers ([link removed])
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** By Robert Nisbet (new foreword by Luke Sheahan)
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** Reviewed by Jason Jewell
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** The Triumph of Economic Freedom ([link removed])
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** By Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux
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** Reviewed by Paul Mueller
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