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Chris Jones, Repair Is the Dream of the Broken Thing, 2008.

Hot mess edition:

• Former Slate critic Lee Siegel forgets that it was he who accused a peer of pedophilia for no good reason, not vice versa. [Lawyers, Guns, and Money]


• The Third Church of Christ, Scientist fails to convince the District's architectural trust that the stylistically significant house of worship originally commissioned by the church—a building that has since garnered historic-preservation status—now impedes the organization's right to religious freedom. [Washington Post]


• How Kenya, one of Africa's most endurable democracies, was saved from self-destruction: parts 1, 2, and 3, with the final installment to come. [Christian Science Monitor]