For this week’s episode of the Acton Line I spoke with my Acton Institute colleague John Pinheiro about his feature essay in the latest issue of Religion & Liberty, “Thomas Jefferson and the Virtue of Limited Government”.
It was a really fun conversation that explores Jefferson’s agrarian republican vision for America, its underlying fundamental anthropology, and its uneasy relationship to the commercial society.
Where does Jefferson root his case for limited government and how resonant is it with the concept of subsidiarity as defined by Catholic social teaching?
Watch and listen below to find out!