The Rise of American Progressivism

Since the turn of the twentieth century, the government of the United States has gradually accrued ever increasing amounts of power over the lives of its citizens. This podcast describes the beginning of that process through the incredibly popular Theodore Roosevelt. It then considers the factors that contributed to a gradual decline in moral standards from 1910 to 1930, especially the rise of cities, the development of the motion picture industry and World War I. It concludes with a look at Franklin Roosevelt and his "New Deal." Read the Articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2016/04/when-government-became-intemperate-an-historic-perspective-of-the-progressive-era/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2016/05/american-intemperance-in-the-twentieth-century-abandonment-of-traditional-morality-and-world-war-i/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2016/07/depression-radically-changed-american-life-economy.