Stephen Cohen's legacy: Warnings unheeded, a war without end

Stephen Cohen's legacy: Warnings unheeded, a war without end

Russian historian Stephen F. Cohen, who passed away five years ago this September, occupied a position in American intellectual life that has become increasingly rare: a tenured Ivy League professor with deep establishment credentials who used his considerable influence to challenge rather than echo establishment narratives. As Ukrainian-American journalist Lev Golinkin observed, Cohen was “someone who didn’t just write about history but had din…