Eugene J. "E.J." Dionne, Jr. (born 1952), an American journalist and political commentator, is a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is also a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.
His published works include the influential 1991 bestseller , which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silient centrist majority, as well as They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era (1996), and Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Whips, and Politics of Revenge (2004).
Dionne holds a B.A. from Harvard University (1973) and a D.Phil. (1982) from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Before becoming a columnist for the Post in 1993, he worked as a reporter for the Post and The New York Times. He lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and three children.
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