Scott Pryor

Emeritus professor of law who taught and writes in fields of contracts, bankruptcy, and private law theory as well as intersection of Christianity & law.

[Davenant Institute @DavenantInst]

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[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

Brief and clear explanation.

[Thomas S. Kidd @ThomasSKidd]

Our Religiously Secular Founding - my essay for the @ActonInstitute https://t.co/v0KMDw56Dv

[T. Greer @Scholars_Stage]

Every Republican who ever said anything against the JCPOA, myself included, looks very silly today.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@DaleMCoulter I was in Bari yesterday!

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@suzania Would *never* have occurred to me.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

Stopped here in Terminal A at Logan for lobster rolls per recco of @tomkeene Apparently he’s in a different tax bracket.

[Ad Fontes @AdFontesJournal]

Meet our Editors!

1/ Patrick Timmis is Senior Editor of Ad Fontes and teaches English Renaissance and Reformation literature at @Hillsdale. A scholar of Reformation-era theology and literature, he has published widely in academic journals, edited volumes for @WestminsterTS Press and @DavenantInst Press, and is the author of The Protestant Imagination of C.S. Lewis (forthcoming from @canonpress). He also serves as a licensed Reader and Catechist in the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@IVMiles The "we" is the contemporary "us." The "what" is the original public meaning of the text (1788). The "what" of 1788 permits advocacy for a WIDE range of actions by civil magistrates, although fewer than 1646. The "how" of such advocacy is a matter of prudential political wisdom.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@tlloydcline Pretty much knocked down a straw man.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

Pretty much knocked down a straw man

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[George Yancey @profyancey]

Like Greg, I am more than willing to address cancel culture on the right. But when people on the left dismiss the cancel culture they have used in the past few decades, they make it harder. I have no desire to strengthen the cancel culture on the left by being willing to address it on the right. If people on the left really want to fight the overreaches of the Trump administration, they would do the cause a lot of good by admitting the mistakes made on the left over the past few decades instead of trying to tell us that there was nothing there. That is a lie that does no good for anyone except leftist extremists.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@IVMiles I was today's years old times two plus ten when I learned about Ike's DL Moody connection.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@ProfRobAnderson My two stints at universities in India is instructive: a five-year undergraduate program from which graduates will have a joint LL.B and a B.A./B.Sc in a field of their choice.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

Law schools should return to offering the LL.B.

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

For those who may not be familiar, the law degree is basically a second bachelor's degree. It's not a "doctorate" in any meaningful sense. It doesn't build on an undergraduate degree or assume any legal knowledge. You can major in music or German or puppet arts and go right to law school.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@suzania Parental marital relationship and current relationship to parents are important.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@suzania Being an "easy" baby is completely irrelevant.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

@suzania I would be ... but for, well, you know who.

[Scott Pryor @profpryor]

Sad but true.

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

And no I don’t really care much for establishmentarianism. But low church Evangelical/Reformed types cooked up their own heterodoxies w/out the state being involved whatsoever and w/out any accompanying mechanism for accountability to the laity.