Osler's Razor

Two of my favorite legal academics are David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania law school and William Stuntz of Harvard Law School. They are wonderful writers whose stuff I would enjoy reading even if I wasn't in the field of law. The fact that their work, in combination, covers both Christianity and criminal law means that I run into their work all the time in the course of my own research. Skeel's The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Scholarship has been, for me, a personal primer on what my scholarship (at least my Christian scholarship) should do. Though some other Christian academics have been upset about it, I think he is exactly right. Stuntz's The Pathological Politics of Criminal Law, in turn, is one of the very best, perhaps the best, academic article I have ever read.

Now, these two guys have combined to start a blog, Less Than The Least. It's full of great stuff, as you might expect. And there is something intriguing going on there, too, in the comments section. In posts like this one, their considered observations are followed by a barrage of attacks from the right. If this is, in fact, one of the few places on the internet where people read the work of those they disagree with, that's all to the good, as that kind of crossover is too rare.

[Question: When is Reagan Baby getting a blog? It seems like a natural.]