 He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Margellos World Republic of Letters (Yale University Press) and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, as well as the Board of Directors of New Directions Publishing.In 2000, Weinberger became the only U.S. literary writer to be awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the government of Mexico.He was chosen by the German organization Dropping Knowledge as one of a hundred "world's most innovative thinkers."