Watching Ourselves in ‘The White Lotus’: Season 3
How the HBO series invites us to take a look at our own monkey minds
Mike Gillis
Mike Gillis is the head writer for The Onion. He has been a practitioner of Soto Zen Buddhism for the past 15 years.
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