AIRBRUSH AWARD: Eugene Volokh points out how a history newsletter (the NCC Washington Update, from the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCCPH)) is handling the Bellesiles scandal — by pretending it’s just a question of a few unfortunate mistakes.

If we can’t trust historians to be honest about the past week, how can we trust them to be honest about things that happened years ago?

Here’s the link to the newsletter.

UPDATE: Geitner Simmons has some observations on how BarnesandNoble.com is dealing with Bellesiles.