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Conservative Conversations with ISI
Paul J. Ray on The Administrative State, Exercising Practical Reason, and Subsidiarity
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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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