Mitchell Cohen is 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: Nation, Class, and the Shaping of Modern Israel (Columbia Univ. Press), The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and the Hidden God (Princeton Univ. Press), and as co-editor, Princeton Readings in Political Thought (Princeton Univ. Press). In addition to scholarly journals, Prof. Cohen as written for The New York Times Sunday Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and The New Republic. From 1991 to 2009, he co-edited Dissent magazine.