"Thanks to developments in American society, politics, and law, however, the history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era has become ever more relevant in recent years. We have seen a widening of the gap between the rich and the rest of society. There has been a political movement against the federal government and government regulation of business in general. Increasingly, Supreme Court decisions seem to favor corporate interests and concentrated wealth. To non-lawyers and critics, at least, some of those decisions seem to be based on technical, unrealistic legal reasoning.1 Taken together, these developments have put us in an age that bears some striking similarities to the early Progressive Era. They have rekindled debates that dominated politics and law more than a century ago."
Paul Kens, "The Constitution and Business Regulation in the Progressive Era: Recent Developments and New Opportunities," American Journal of Legal History, 2016, 56, 97–103.