 He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1966, and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he worked with Barrington Moore, Jr. and Michael Walzer, and also wrote for the underground paper "The Old Mole".At the University of California, Irvine, Wiener taught history courses on American politics and the Cold War.His scholarly works have been published in "The American Historical Review", "The Journal of American History", "Radical History Review", and "Past & Present".