Laurie, Ben, and Karl talk about the current fad for cleansing regimens, especially in the light of the tragedy in the Philippines, where more than 10,000 people are estimated dead following last weekend’s typhoon. Do our attempts to purify our bodies represent a kind of private piety that ignores the larger needs of the world? […]
As of this morning, the official count of those who have died in the Philippines stands at 1,800. It’s a faceless number, a mere estimate, and it will rise. Yesterday I went to the New York Times website and looked at the photos. I tried drawing some of them. Then, in the evening, I celebrated […]
