# Jesse Walker **URL:** --- Jesse Walker is books editor of _Reason_ magazine. He has written on topics ranging from pirate radio to copyright law to political paranoia, and he is author of the books [_Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America_](http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Air-Alternative-History-America/dp/0814793827/reasonmagazineA/) (New York University Press, 2001) and [_The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062135562/reasonmagazineA/) (HarperCollins, 2013).