E. J. Dionne
Dionne in 2008
Born	Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Author, columnist
Education	Harvard University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil)
Subject	Religion, history, politics,left-wing politics
Spouse	Mary Boyle
Children	3

Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr. (/diˈɒn/) is an American journalist, political commentator, and was a long-timeop-ed columnist forThe Washington Post. He is also a senior fellow in governance studies at theBrookings Institution, a professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at theMcCourt School of Public Policy ofGeorgetown University, and anNPR,MSNBC, andPBS commentator.

Dionne was born inBoston, Massachusetts, and raised inFall 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 ofFrench-Canadian descent.^[3] He attendedPortsmouth Abbey School (then known as PortsmouthPriory), aBenedictine college preparatory school inPortsmouth, Rhode Island.

Dionne graduated in 1973 with a B.A.,summa cum laude, insocial studies fromHarvard University, where he was elected toPhi Beta Kappa and was affiliated withAdams House. He also earned aD.Phil. insociology in 1982 fromBalliol College,Oxford, where he was aRhodes Scholar.

External videos
Booknotes interview with Dionne onWhy Americans Hate Politics, August 25, 1991,C-SPAN

Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestsellerWhy Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silentcentrist majority. It was characterized asradical centrist byTime.^[4] Later books includeThey 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),Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (2012), andOne Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet Deported (2017), coauthored withNorman J. Ornstein andThomas E. Mann. His most recent book isCode Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country (2020).

Dionne is a columnist forCommonweal, aliberal Catholic publication, and is a Contributing Opinion Writer forThe New York Times. Before becoming a columnist for thePost in 1993, he worked as a reporter for that paper as well asThe New York Times. He has joined the left-liberalThe National Memo news-politics website.

Dionne lives inBethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Mary Boyle; they have three children.^[5]

• Why Americans Hate Politics. New York:Simon & Schuster, 1991.ISBN 978-0671682552.
• They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.ISBN 978-0684807683.
• Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America (editor). Washington, D.C.:Brookings Institution, 1998ISBN 0815718675.
• Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.ISBN 978-0743258586.
• Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2008.ISBN 0691134588.
• Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent. New York:Bloomsbury, 2012.ISBN 1608192016.
• Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond. New York:Simon & Schuster, 2016.ISBN 978-1476763798.
• One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported. WithNorman J. Ornstein andThomas E. Mann. New York:St. Martin's Press, 2017.ISBN 9781250164056.
• Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country. New York:St. Martin's Press, 2020.ISBN 9781250256478.

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