On a Wednesday night in the glow of a television studio, actor Ben Affleck and Jeopardy! champion Jamie Ding completed what another contestant had begun — answering fifteen questions correctly to claim a million dollars on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The prize, destined for Affleck's Eastern Congo Initiative, reminds us that the oldest human impulse — to turn good fortune toward the suffering of others — finds its way even into the most unlikely of arenas. In a culture that often reduces celebrity to spectacle, this particular spectacle quietly pointed somewhere else.