Book Review: A Plea to End Poverty by Giving to Charity

Singer surely courts controversy when he suggests that philanthropy for the arts and cultural activities is "morally dubious" in the face of dire poverty. He notes that New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art paid $45 million for a painting, an amount that could have restored the sight of 900,000 people needing cataract surgery, a procedure that costs a mere $50 per person.