16 Facts About Nathaniel Weyl

Nathaniel Weyl was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues.

Nathaniel Weyl's father was from a German Jewish family, and his mother, originally from Chicago, was from a Christian background.

Nathaniel Weyl received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1931.

Nathaniel Weyl returned to Columbia for doctoral studies in economics in 1932 and became a leader of the "Communist-controlled" National Student Union.

Edmund Stevens, like Nathaniel Weyl, was an editor of Student Review and convinced him to join the Communist Party.

Nathaniel Weyl joined the Ware group, a covert cell of Communists in Washington, DC.

Nathaniel Weyl described what could be interpreted as Ware's efforts to corral him into espionage and his own effort to extract himself from the group:.

Nathaniel Weyl spent 1934 and 1935 in New York, married Sylvia Castleton, and moved to Texas.

Nathaniel Weyl served overseas in the Army for two years during World War II.

In 1952, Nathaniel Weyl testified before the Senate Internal Security Committee that he had been a member of the Ware group, and that Alger Hiss had attended meetings as well.

However, it came two years after Hiss had been convicted of perjury, and Nathaniel Weyl never explained his failure to come forward as a witness in the Hiss trials.

Also in 1952, Nathaniel Weyl attended a loyalty board meeting in support of Mary Dublin Keyserling.

Nathaniel Weyl writings included studies of communism, especially in Latin America; espionage and internal security in the United States; racial, ethnic and class analyses of societies; and the roles of political and intellectual elites.

Nathaniel Weyl wrote for the National Review from the 1960s through the 1970s.

Nathaniel Weyl had been writing for the magazine as early as 1960.

Nathaniel Weyl reportedly moderated his conservative views later in his life, and he supported Bill Clinton and John Kerry.