Mitchell Cohen is professor of Political Science at Bernard Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He co-edited the influential political-intellectual quarterly magazine Dissent between 1991 and 2009. His books include The Wager of Lucien Goldmann (1994), Zion and State. Nation Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel (1992), and, as a co-editor, Princeton Readings in Political Thought (1995).

His essays appeared published in numerous newspapers and journals, such as The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Les Temps Modernes, and Nexus (issues 37 and 47). Cohen is also a writing fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.