E.J. Dionne Jr.

E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a syndicated columnist with The Washington Post, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right, which was published in January by Princeton University Press. He is also the author of Why Americans Hate Politics—winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize and a National Book Award nominee—They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era, and Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps and the Politics of Revenge. He is the editor or co-editor of many other books, including the Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion & Public Life. Dionne graduated from Harvard University and received his doctorate from Oxford. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and their three children.