Randy Cohen

Person Place Thing

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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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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.

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.

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