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Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent Magazine in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton University Press), The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics and a Hidden God (Princeton University Press) and Zion and State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel (Blackwell/Columbia University Press). Zion and State will be republished as an ebook later this year. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Sunday Book Review; the Times Literary Supplement (London); Esprit (Paris); and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His article ‘Does the Left have a Zionist Problem?’ appeared in Jews and Leftist Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Born in New York, he received his PhD from Columbia University and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Iran is slowly surrounding Israel with a ‘ring of fire’: On the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to see plain the IRGC’s transnational Jihad
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures
From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn’t Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen
Iran’s ‘successful’ attack vs Israel – a blessing very effectively disguised
Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 2: ‘Arafat could never end the conflict… his identity was shaped by struggle’ – A conversation with Dennis RossOur Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.
