Paul J. Ray on The Administrative State, Exercising Practical Reason, and Subsidiarity

In this episode:

• The Hon. Paul J. Ray, former head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), joins the podcast to give a primer on the administrative state and how it works
• how the administrative state cuts against the American tradition of self-government and each citizen’s ability to exercise practical reason
• how the federal system of American government serves as an application of subsidiarity in our political regime

Texts Mentioned:

• Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Rerum Novarum  by Pope Leo XIII
• Nicomachean Ethics  by Aristotle
• Bureaucracy by James Q. Wilson

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