NPR's Andrea Seabrook sits in with the Ethicist, Randy Cohen, to discuss whether requests by the dead to destroy all their correspondence need to be fulfilled.
Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.
Host Jacki Lyden and New York Times Magazine Ethicist Randy Cohen discuss the ethics of peddling memorabilia. They thrash out the dilemma of a listener whose friend works for a firm has been selling souvenirs with the image of the late Pope John Paul II. The friend wonders whether it's proper to sell such souvenirs for a profit.
If you own a lemon, do you have to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth when you trade it in to a dealer? Host Jennifer Ludden and Randy Cohen, The New York Times Magazine ethicist, help resolve a listener's car-trading dilemma.
Host Jennifer Ludden and Randy Cohen, The New York Times Magazine's ethics columnist, answer a listener's ethical dilemma. A laptop computer user wants to know if he should feel guilty for tapping into other people's wireless networks.