Author Archive for James Baresel

Subsidiarity Contrasted with Libertarian "Small Government"
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Subsidiarity Contrasted with Libertarian “Small Government”

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by on Sep 17, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, The Social Order
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Not long ago I encountered two people who were arguing in favor of a libertarian presidential candidate and making the argument that his election would lead to greater subsidiarity in the United States. Neither of these individuals agreed with this candidate’s libertarian philosophy. Both, in fact, saw his philosophy as significantly flawed. Their only argument […]

HHS Mandate: Morality and the Common Good
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HHS Mandate: Morality and the Common Good

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by on Apr 02, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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It may have been too much to hope that the recent Health and Human Services mandate requiring the provision of contraceptives and other immoral “medical care” could have alerted people to the dangers and errors of a political system built on a classical liberal understanding of freedom as opposed to one built on a Catholic, […]