Paris and Vienna. It received the Prose Award for Music from the Association of American Publishers. It was named one of the best books of the year in the London Evening Standard and Cohen also received for it the Presidential Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarship of Baruch College of the City University of New York. The Politics of Opera was short-listed for the Shannon Prize in European Studies. Selected bibliography Books The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton University Press) The Wager of Lucien Goldmann (Princeton University Press) Zion and State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel (Blackwell and Columbia University Press; in French edition: Editions la Découverte) Edited collections Editor, Princeton Readings in Political Thought: 2nd Edition (Princeton University Press, 2018) Editor, Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Great Political Stories (Dell Books) Editor, Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation: Selected Essays by Ber Borochov. Transaction Books: New Brunswick, NJ, 1984. Select articles “Irving Howe: A Socialist Life,” Dissent, Fall 2020. “New York-la-Virale,” Esprit (Paris), May 20, 2020. Short English version: “Beyond the Virus,” Dissent, April 9, 2020. “In Edgy Times,” Nexus (Amsterdam), Winter 2020. “The Example of Agnès Heller,” Dissent, Fall 2019. “Labor Zionism, the State and Beyond: An Interpretation of Changing Realities and Changing Histories,” Israel Studies Review, Winter 2015. “France: Right Rumbles, Left Wobbles,” Dissent, February 19, 2014 “The Left Today: A Social Democratic View. Interview with Mitchell Cohen,” Dissent and Phase 2, September 8, 2008. “Les fondements de l’idée socialiste aujourd’hui: table ronde,” in L’idée socialiste aujourd’hui: Colloque (Paris: Fondation Jean-Jaurès/Plon, 2001). “Why Lenin’s Critics were Right,” Dissent, Fall 2017. “Does the Left have a ‘Zionist Problem’?,” in J. Jacobs., ed., Jews and Leftist Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017). “Is there a Crisis in Jewish Political Culture?”, Jewish Social Studies Spring-Summer, 2017. "The Values of Dissent," Dissent, Winter 2014. “Why I am still ‘Left’,” Dissent, Spring 1997 "Perry Anderson and the House of Anti-Imperialism," Fathom, April 2016. "A Dissident Moses in Paris and Berlin," Jewish Review of Books, April 2016. “Rooted Cosmopolitanism,” Dissent, Fall 1990. “Decades of Dissent,” Introduction to N. Mills and M. Walzer eds. Fifty Years of Dissent Magazine (Yale Univ. Press). "Should we trust Intellectuals?," Common Knowledge, Winter 2010. “Reconsidering T.H. Marshall’s ‘Citizenship and Social Class,” Policy Network On-Line, Series on Classics of Social Democratic Thought, Summer 2010; and in Dissent, Fall 2010. “What is