Walter Weyl
Author
1873 – 1919
Who was Walter Weyl?
Walter Weyl, born Walter Edward Weyl, was an intellectual leader of the Progressive movement in the United States. As a strong nationalist, his goal was to remedy the relatively weak American national institutions with a strong state. Weyl wrote widely on issues of economics, labor, public policy, and international affairs in numerous books, articles, and editorials; he was a coeditor of the highly influential The New Republic magazine, 1914-1916. His most influential book, The New Democracy was a classic statement of democratic meliorism, revealing his path to a future of progress and modernization based on middle class values, aspirations and brain work. It articulated the general mood:
"America to-day is in a somber, soul-questioning mood. We are in a period of clamor, of bewilderment, of an almost tremulous unrest. We are hastily revising all our social conceptions.... We are profoundly disenchanted with the fruits of a century of independence."
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- Born
- Mar 11, 1873
Philadelphia - Also known as
- Walter E. Weyl
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Died
- Nov 1, 1919
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on July 23, 2013
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