Hello everyone, and thanks, Doug, for inviting me to guest-blog. I’m Joshua Kleinfeld, and I teach and write about criminal law and procedure, on the one hand, and political, legal, and moral philosophy on the other. Doug was kind enough to give me a somewhat open-ended mandate with regard to topic, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to do something I’ve always wanted to do: share my inchoate philosophical musings about criminal justice with others—to think aloud and in public, as it were—and thus learn how my half-formed ideas strike others in the field, find out about relevant literature that I might otherwise have overlooked, uncover strong objections before publishing in more formal venues, and generally invite communication while my ideas are still in diapers. I would never have done this before tenure. Even now, I confess to some nervousness. But, well, here goes…