MICHAEL BELLESILES UPDATE: The Christian Science Monitor hasn’t retracted its review of Bellesiles’ Arming America yet, but in response to my FoxNews column from a couple of weeks ago, they did run this piece on the whole controversy. The piece quotes a book review editor as saying that the case against Bellesiles hasn’t been proved beyond a reasonable doubt. I’m not so sure about that, but I would suggest that when a controversy of this magnitude erupts it would be fair to ask the reviewers if they’d like to add (or subtract) anything where their reviews are concerned. I suspect that a lot of Bellesiles’ reviewers would. There’s also a discussion of this issue on the Monitor’s Monitor Talk message board.