Walter Weyl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Weyl

American political writer

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1873

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1919

Profession: economist, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Walter Edward Weyl (March 11, 1873 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 9, 1919 in Woodstock, New York) was a writer and speaker, 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 (1912) 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."