HERE’S A U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT STORY on the John Lott affair, in which Lott comes off fairly well, though he does not emerge unscathed. Jacob Levy reports on an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, too, but it’s subscriber-only on their website, and I couldn’t find it on Nexis; guess it’s not up yet. Meanwhile this somewhat snarky item from the Washington Post has garnered a number of letters (reproduced here) in support of Lott’s computer-crash story. Those have some probative value, though they don’t actually prove that he did the survey in question, of course — only that he’s telling the truth about the computer crash.

UPDATE: Ask and ye shall receive. Quite a few people emailed me copies of the Chronicle article. Nothing really new there, though it’s a good summary of the affair so far.