A gentleman – with a name like Donald P. Goodman III, he must be a gentleman! – over at The Distributist Review has a fine article on the idea of subsidiarity.
For the record, I’m very much of the “Subsidiarity means the right action taken by the right authority as close to the problem as possible” school. I think the “Subsidiarity = smaller government, but bigger private enterprise is okay” school misses the point. The point is, subsidiarity is a principle that guards against any kind of collectivization – public or private – in order to keep the focus of society where it belongs: on actual human beings.
