“Goodbye” column<\/a>: after 12 years, he is moving on to other projects. <\/p>\nI have an abiding love for all sorts of advice columns (a reading woman’s Oprah?), but Cohen always inspired me to make a personal examination rather than gawk at the problems of others. I’ll miss his insight when it comes to examining the small decisions that ultimately shape and define our lives.<\/p>\n
And if you’re wondering what any of this has to do with music and culture, I fully admit the link is tenuous. And yet, after consuming yet another week of arts coverage filled with musicians on strike and legislative threats to public funding, I think maybe a broader check-in regarding conduct and the public good as we plunge into the next debate is a stop worth making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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For years now, whenever my mother would lament my dismal church attendance record, I would point to my religious reading of Randy Cohen’s The Ethicist<\/i> column. Though there was no eternal salvation on offer, I always felt that its example was a weekly sermon that guided me towards moral honesty and perhaps kept me from impinging on the goodness of this world while I was on it.<\/p>\n