Jon Wiener

Contributing Editor

@JonWiener1

Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.

Letters Letters

MIA: WOMEN FIGHTING STATE TERROR Jerusalem We would like to thank Alexander Cockburn for his excellent March 25 "Beat the Devil" column, "The Nightmare in Is...

Apr 11, 2002 / Jon Wiener and Our Readers

Denmark Vesey: A New Verdict Denmark Vesey: A New Verdict

A historian questions whether he led a slave revolt, but his heroism still stands.

Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Politically Incorrect Politically Incorrect

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Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Southern Explosure Southern Explosure

Thirty-eight years after the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, two of the four principals are dead, but the issues are still full of life. Thomas Blanton Jr. is ...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Acid Rock: A Flashback Acid Rock: A Flashback

Nick Bromell's Tomorrow Never Knows explores rock and roll in the sixties.

Feb 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Lennon’s Greatest Hits Lennon’s Greatest Hits

December 8, 2000: It was twenty years ago today that Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside the Dakota on West 72nd Street in New York City, bringing whatever was...

Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Save the Mall Save the Mall

On Veterans Day, November 11, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt will appear on the Mall at a spot between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial to break ground for the ...

Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Another ‘October Surprise’ Another ‘October Surprise’

Poor Anthony Summers--he writes a 600-page book on Nixon based on massive and exhaustive research, including interviews with a thousand people and 120 pages of documentation--and...

Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Copyright as Censorship Copyright as Censorship

The British government, increasingly desperate to silence a former MI5 intelligence officer who has been campaigning to expose government misconduct, has sued him and a London ne...

May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jon Wiener

Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files

The headline in the Sunday Times of London was spectacular: Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists. It was also erroneous.

Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

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