People, help me out. Is this Roger Cohen who wrote the completely unhinged article in today’s NYTIMES the same Cohen who writes crazy Putinoid pieces for The Nation? Or is it a different Cohen? And if so, what made the bearers of such a glorious name suddenly go crazy en masse?

7 responses to “Two Cohens or One?”

  1. J. Otto Pohl Avatar

    Different Cohen, the one that writes for the Nation is Stephen Cohen. The name Cohen is extremely common among US elite opinion makers and cultural figures. There are also the Cohen Brothers film makers, Leonard Cohen the musician, and a whole bunch of others.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Thank you for clarifying. So there are now two idiot Cohens saying stupid things in a very public context. Like one wasn’t enough.

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    2. Jonathan Mayhew Avatar
      Jonathan Mayhew

      Leonard Cohen is Canadian.

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    3. Stringer Bell Avatar
      Stringer Bell

      “There are also the Cohen Brothers film makers,”

      Coen brothers. Not Cohen.

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  2. Dreidel Avatar
    Dreidel

    “Putinoid” idiot?? Don’t you know that Stephen Cohen (husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel, the owner/publisher/editor of “The Nation”) is a renowned American scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University???

    How can you question his expertise on Russia? 🙂

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Actually, no, I had no idea. No wonder that Slavic Studies in this country are dead. If this kind of village idiot is hired by Princeton, what can we expect?

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  3. Dreidel Avatar
    Dreidel

    BTW, if you think certain “progressives” named Cohen are Putinoid idiots, they can’t hold a candle to a frequent “Salon.com” writer with a totally plain-Jane name like “Patrick L. Smith”:

    http://www.salon.com/2015/12/23/from_bad_to_worse_to_delusional_the_real_story_about_syria_that_the_new_york_times_wont_tell_you/

    Stephen Cohen and Patrick Smith are about my age, but the years haven’t been kind to their intellectual capabilities. As the saying goes, there’s no fool like an old fool.

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