Occupation Author, columnist Spouse Mary Boyle Dionne Role Journalist | Name E. Dionne Nationality American | |
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Born Eugene Joseph Dionne, Jr. April 23, 1952 (age 72) Boston, Massachusetts, USA ( 1952-04-23 ) People also search for David Brooks, Lucienne Dionne Children Julia Dionne, Margot Dionne, James Dionne Parents Lucienne Dionne, Eugene J. Dionne Siblings CAPT Lucie-Anne Dionne-Thomas, JAGC, USN Books Why Americans Hate Polit, Our Divided Political, They only look dead, Souled Out: Reclaimi, Stand Up Fight Back: Republic Profiles | ||
Agenda interview with e j dionne
Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr. (; born April 23, 1952), known as E. J. Dionne, is an American journalist and political commentator, and a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is also a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at the McCourt School of Public Policy, a Senior Research Fellow at Saint Anselm College, and an NPR, MSNBC, and PBS commentator.
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- Agenda interview with e j dionne
- E j dionne explains why the right went wrong
- Life and career
- Writings
- References
E j dionne explains why the right went wrong
Life and career
Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 23, 1952, and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is the son of the late Lucienne (née Galipeau), a librarian and teacher, and Eugene J. Dionne, a dentist. He is of French-Canadian descent. He attended Portsmouth Abbey School (then known as Portsmouth Priory), a Benedictine college preparatory school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Dionne holds an A.B. summa cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University (1973), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was affiliated with Adams House. He also earned a DPhil in Sociology from Balliol College, Oxford (1982), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrist majority. It was characterized as radical centrist by Time magazine. Later books include They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era (1996), Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Politics of Revenge (2004), Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right (2008), and Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (2012).
Dionne is a columnist for Commonweal, a liberal Catholic publication. Before becoming a columnist for the Post in 1993, he worked as a reporter for that paper as well as The New York Times. He has recently joined the left-liberal The National Memo news-politics website.
Dionne lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Mary Boyle, and three children, James, Julia, and Margot.