Jon Wiener

Jon Wiener is the host and producer of Start Making Sense, The Nation’s weekly podcast, and a longtime contributing editor at The Nation. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine, and his most recent book is How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America.
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