Contributor

Mitchell Cohen

Editor Emeritus, Dissent Magazine and Author, 'The Politics of Opera,' 'Zion and State: Nation, Class, and the Shaping of Modern Israel'

Mitchell Cohen co-edited Dissent Magazine from 1991-2009. A professor of political science at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, his books include "Zion and State" (Columbia University Press), "The Wager of Lucien Goldmann" (Princeton University Press) and a forthcoming study of political ideas in opera.

He has guest lectured at numerous European and American universities, was National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and a visiting professor at Stanford.