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E. J. Dionne

Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr. (/diˈɒn/) is an American journalist, political commentator, and long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is also a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at the McCourt School of Public Policy of Georgetown University, and an NPR, MSNBC, and PBS commentator.

E. J. Dionne

Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr.
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Author, columnist

Harvard University (BA)
Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil)

Religion, history, politics, left-wing politics

Mary Boyle

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Early life and education[edit]

Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is the son of the late Lucienne (née Galipeau), a librarian and teacher, and Eugène J. Dionne, a dentist.[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 graduated in 1973 with a B.A., summa cum laude, in social studies from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was affiliated with Adams House. He also earned a DPhil in sociology in 1982 from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Personal life[edit]

Dionne lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Mary Boyle; they have three children: James, Julia, and Margot.[5]

Why Americans Hate Politics. New York: , 1991. ISBN 978-0671682552.

Simon & Schuster

They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.  978-0684807683.

ISBN

Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America (editor). Washington, D.C.: , 1998 ISBN 0815718675.

Brookings Institution

Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.  978-0743258586.

ISBN

Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. Princeton: , 2008. ISBN 0691134588.

Princeton University Press

Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent. New York: , 2012. ISBN 1608192016.

Bloomsbury

Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond. New York: , 2016. ISBN 978-1476763798.

Simon & Schuster

One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported. With and Thomas E. Mann. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. ISBN 9781250164056.

Norman J. Ornstein

Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country. New York: , 2020. ISBN 9781250256478.

St. Martin's Press

Washington Post page

Brookings Institution page

Georgetown Faculty web page

Interviewed by David Axelrod, "The Axe Files"

NPR page

Truthdig page

Biography from the Washington Post Writers Group

"Conversation with History" interview

on C-SPAN

Appearances