Mitchell Cohen is editor emeritus of Dissent Magazine, emeritus professor of political science at Baruch College, CUNY and taught at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author most recently of The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton University Press) which the Association of American Publishers named the best prose book on music of 2017. It was also named among the best books of 2017 in The London Evening Standard and was short-listed for the Shannon Prize in European studies. He was awarded for it the Presidential Achievement Award of Baruch College, CUNY for Excellence in Scholarship. He is completing a political biography of Richard Wagner and recently edited a new edition of Princeton Readings in Political Thought (Princeton University Press). His other books include The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics and a Hidden God (Princeton University Press), Zion and State: Nation, Class and the Making of Modern Israel (Columbia University Press) and, as editor, Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Political Short Stories from Hawthorne to Today (Dell). His books, articles and reviews have been translated into a dozen languages and have appeared in numerous publications in the U.S., Europe, and Israel including The New York Times Sunday Book Review, the London Times Literary Supplement, Politico, The Los Angles Review of Books and Esprit. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, CUNY Writing Fellow at the Levy Biography Center and has lectured at Stanford, the French Institute for Politics (Sciences-po), the École normale supérieure and the ÉHESS (in Paris) along with numerous other universities in the U.S., Europe and Israel.