Person Place Thing
Host of a public radio program called Person Place Thing; former writer of the New York Times Magazine’s “The Ethicist” column.
PROFILE
Randy Cohen
Guest
FROM Randy Cohen
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Morality of Debt The sticker price for most private colleges these days is north of $60,000. That’s leaving millions of Americans struggling to pay back school loans. So much that some of them are now refusing to pay back their student debt. But is that OK? How did ignoring debt turn into a moral stand? Photo: Bossi
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Jim Carrey’s cartoons, real estate love letters Jim Carrey is known as an actor and comedian, but in the last couple years he’s taken up political cartooning. He tells DnA about expressing his anti-Trump feelings through art. And buying a house in LA can be a competition. Can a personal letter to the seller give you a leg-up? The editor of “Dear Seller” shares stories of what prospective buyers write to land their dream house.
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