American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues.
Weyl was a member of the Communist Party from 1931 until 1939. In later live he turned against communism and worked for an South American institute studying communism.
Two of his books received some critical coverage, one of which was "Red star over Cuba" where he claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald went to Cuba just before the JFK assassination.
Weyl was the son of Walter Edward Weyl, one of the founders of the New Republic magazine.