listeners' questions on ethics for the National Public Radio radio news program, All Things Considered. The Times ended Cohen's stint as The Ethicist, making his final column Sunday, February 27, 2011. The column continued with the same format but a new byline until early 2015, when it abandoned the question and answer format for a discussion format among a number of persons. Cohen donated $585 to MoveOn.org's voter registration effort in 2004, apparently in violation of Times policy, which had banned political donations in 2003. The Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Review decided on June 20, 2007, to drop Cohen's column, which had been scheduled to begin running in the paper on the following Saturday, because of his donation. Cohen responded that he saw no ethical violation, because he viewed MoveOn as no more activist than other organizations, such as the Boy Scouts of America. Nonetheless, he said he would not make such donations in the future. Cohen wrote a play about the eighteenth century boxing champion Daniel Mendoza. The Punishing Blow debuted in 2009 at the Woodstock Fringe Festival and ran in 2010 at Manhattan's Clurman Theater. In winter 2012, public radio station WAMC launched Cohen's new show Person Place Thing. In the show's first season, Cohen interviewed guests Dick Cavett, Jane Smiley, Susie Essman, Dave Cowens, Michael Pollan, John Hockenberry, Rickie Lee Jones, Ed Koch, Samantha Bee, RL Stine, and Sir Roger Bannister. Bibliography Modest Proposals (1981, ), a book of satiric letters Diary of a Flying Man (1989, ), a collection of stories and humor pieces The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell Right from Wrong in Everyday Situations (2002, ), a collection of his columns Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything (2012, Chronicle Books ), a guide, in Q&A format, to facing everyday moral challenges. Personal life Cohen was born in Charleston, South Carolina and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, in what he has called a "suburban reform Jewish household." He was formerly married to the writer and activist Katha Pollitt, with whom he has a daughter, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen. References Specific references: General references: October 2004 interview with Cohen from Gothamist.com December 1999: The Ethicist Who Isn't, a critique of the column from Reason magazine External links The Ethicist Archives at The New York Times website Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen Cohen's 500th (and last) News Quiz. American advice columnists American ethicists American