Can't keep a good blog down

Not all the news is bad. This week, we learned that TaxProf Blog, which ran out of steam at the end of last month, is being resurrected, under new management, as TaxProf Blog 2.0. The original blogger, Paul Caron, who posted daily for 21 years, will still be involved on the fringes, but the day-to-day work has been farmed out to a select committee. To take over most of what Caron was doing, there will be 10 law professors at their keyboards.

As I noted when its demise was imminent, TaxProf Blog has been a remarkable resource, always helpful and often influential. And in the current moment, when the federal tax system is being trashed by order of the White House, we tax foot-soldiers need all the resources we can get.

The new version of the blog isn't going to be quite the same as the old one. Caron's giant archive of posts (something like 55,000 of them) is being restored, which is a great relief, but so far, there's no place under the new posts for comments, which can be as important as the posts themselves. And the revived blog is being hosted by the Association of American Law Schools, which seems like a guarantee of blandness.

But hey, any TaxProf Blog is better than none, and the new lineup of curators looks pretty impressive. Best wishes to them, and welcome to the blogosphere.