EJ Dionne

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EJ Dionne (2008)

Eugene Joseph "EJ" Dionne Jr. (born April 23, 1952 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is best known as a columnist for the Washington Post .

Life and activity

Dionne is of French Canadian descent. He grew up the son of a dentist and your librarian in Fall River, Massachusetts. After attending Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island , he studied at Harvard University , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in social studies in 1973 . He later studied on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford , where he earned a doctorate from Balliol College in 1982 .

In the 1980s, Dionne began to make a name for himself as a journalist. In the 1980s he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post and the New York Times . In 1993 he received his own column at the post office, which he still has today. In 1991 he published the book Why Americans Hate Politics , which became a bestseller. In this book he blames the decades-long polarization of political operations for the fact that the majority of voters who are politically in the middle, i.e. apart from the ideologically stubborn wings of the big parties, developed a considerable disgust for political operations, with the result that politics as such is perceived as something negative by large parts of the population.

Dionne's own political views characterize him as left-liberal. His public statements have, among others, a place on the official "enemies list" of his National Rifle Association (NRA), the main lobby group the American arms industry and firearms owners introduced.

In addition to his journalistic and journalistic activities, Dionne is a Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a lecturer at the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University . On television, Dionne appears frequently as a commentator on programs on the educational channel PBS and on programs on the left-wing cable news station MSNBC while working on radio for National Public Radio .

In 2005 Dionne was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Dionne, who lives in Bethesda , Maryland , is married with three children.

Fonts

  • Why Americans Hate Politics , New York 1991.
  • They Only Look Dead. Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era , New York 1996.
  • Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America , Washington DC 1998. (Editor)
  • Stand up, fight back. Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge , New York 2004.
  • Souled out. Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right , Princeton 2008.
  • Our Divided Political Heart. The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent , New York 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journalists on NRA "Enemies List" .
personal data
SURNAME Dionne, EJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dionne, Eugene Joseph Jr. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts