Eugene Joseph Dionne Biography
Eugene Joseph Dionne is a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post and an American journalist. He is also a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, and a regular contributor on NPR, MSNBC, and PBS.
How old is Eugene Joseph Dionne?- Age
He is 71 years old as of April 2023. He was born Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr. on 23 April 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Eugene Joseph Dionne Education
In Portsmouth, Rhode Island, he attended Portsmouth Abbey School (formerly known as Portsmouth Priory), a Benedictine college preparatory school. Dionne graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. summa cum laude in Social Studies in 1973, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of Adams House. He also holds a DPhil in Sociology from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1982.
Eugene Joseph Dionne Family
Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts, to the late Lucienne, a librarian and teacher, and Eugène J. Dionne, a dentist.
Eugene Joseph Dionne Wife
Dionne is married to his wife, Mary Boyle, and together they have three children, James, Julia, and Margot. Dionne lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Eugene Joseph Dionne Books- Career
Among Dionne’s published writings is the popular 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that decades of political division had alienated a silent centrist majority. Time described it as “radical centrist.” They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era (1996), Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Revenge Politics (2004), Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right (2008), and Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (2012) are among his later books. One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, Disillusioned, Desperate, and Not-Yet Deported (2017), coauthored with Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann, is his most recent book. Dionne writes a piece for Commonweal, a liberal Catholic magazine. He worked as a reporter for the Post and The New York Times before becoming a columnist in 1993. He has joined the left-liberal news and politics website The National Memo.
Joseph Dionne Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
