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.
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Randy Cohen
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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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