Scott Pryor
@profpryor
Emeritus professor of law who taught and writes in fields of contracts, bankruptcy, and private law theory as well as intersection of Christianity & law.
🧵This July 4th, let’s honor the Jewish patriots who helped secure America’s independence. Though only 2,000–3,000 Jews lived in the colonies, they made huge contributions, from financing the war, fighting on the front lines, to advocating for liberty, and helping lay the…
Yes, you absolutely can get legit disabled in training. I know people it’s happened to. A military life is no joke physically. But there’s far too much abuse of the system and everyone knows it.
This is what is actually going to undermine support for the troops in America. The folks I know in the military are in denial about what is happening to their brand.
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Texas is actually one of the more fair maps in America; Democrats got 40% of the House vote & 34% of House seats; reasonable Compare to California, where Republicans got 40% of the vote and 18% of the seats. Or Illinois, where GOP got **47%** of the House vote and 18% of seats
This is not democracy.
“There is nothing I despise more than a politician who seeks to sell his politics by preaching religion, unless it be a preacher who tries to sell his sermons by talking politics.”—Quintin Hogg (quoted by Russell Kirk in his “Concise Guide to Conservatism.”)
Religion and the Early American Republic open.substack.com/pub/profpryor/…
In Print at Last! Person-Centered Pluralism for Contract Theory: open.substack.com/pub/profpryor/…
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Religion and the Early American Republic open.substack.com/pub/profpryor/… @carringtonam @IVMiles
New Web Feature: Call people what they want to be called—within reason, writes Alan Jacobs. hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…
Excellent analysis.
Ryan Burge: Election Post-Mortem: Age, Faith and the Vote in 2024 graphsaboutreligion.com/p/election-pos…
More on @IVMiles book "Religion and Republic" open.substack.com/pub/profpryor/…
A few random thoughts that I need to crystalize. 1. At an individual level, both justice and righteousness are virtues. 2. Justice focuses on doing what is right or compensating the one who has been wronged.
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#IndependenceDayUSA musings: profpryor.substack.com/p/a-slightly-l…