E. J. Dionne

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E. J. Dionne
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E. J. Dionne
Born Eugene Joseph Dionne, Jr.
(1952-04-23) April 23, 1952 (age 71)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Occupation Author, columnist
Nationality American
Alma mater Portsmouth Abbey School
Harvard University
Balliol College, Oxford
Subject religion, history, politics, left-wing politics
Spouse Mary Boyle
Children James, Julia, Margot

Eugene Joseph "E. J." Dionne, Jr. (/dˈɒn/; born April 23, 1952) 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.

Life and career

Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 23, 1952. He is the son of the late Lucienne (née Galipeau), a librarian and teacher, and Eugene J. Dionne, a dentist, and was raised in Fall River, Massachusetts.[1][2] He is of French-Canadian descent.[3] He attended Portsmouth Abbey School, (then known as Portsmouth Priory), a Benedictine college preparatory school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Dionne holds a BA in social studies from Harvard University (1973), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was affiliated with Adams House, and a D.Phil. 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.[4] 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. He also has one sibling, CAPT Lucie-Anne Dionne-Thomas, JAGC, USN (Ret.), of Middletown, Rhode Island, who also served as a civilian attorney in the Navy following retirement.

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  4. Duffy, Michael (May 20, 1991). "Looking for The Radical Middle". Time magazine. Retrieved February 21, 2013.

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