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Mitchell Cohen

Mitchell Cohen is professor of political science at Baruch College and The Graduate Center of CUNY and editor emeritus of Dissent. He is writing a political biography of Richard Wagner.

Spring 2016

A Dissonant Moses in Berlin and Paris

Mitchell Cohen

Schoenberg’s challenging opera is re-staged in 21st-century Europe.

Spring 2015

Going Under with Klinghoffer

Mitchell Cohen

When it came to New York’s Metropolitan Opera this past fall The Death of Klinghoffer faced angry—and, it must be admitted, some pretty shrill—demonstrators.