Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent Magazine and professor emeritus of political science at Baruch College of the City University of NY. As author or editor his books include "The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart," "The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God," "Zion and State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel," "Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Great Political Short Stories," and "Princeton Readings in Political Thought." His articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the TLS, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Esprit. Perlentaucher, and other publications in the US and Europe. He has been a visiting professor at the French Institute of Politics, the French School of Advanced Studies in Social Science, and Stanford..
