Syndicated columnist and author E.J. Dionne Jr. will deliver a lecture titled 鈥淲ill Enron or Saddam Dominate this Year鈥檚 Election?鈥� at 4:15 p.m. Sept. 24 (Tuesday) in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies at the University of 91吃瓜.p. Sponsored by the Hanley Lecture Series on Politics and Public Policy of 91吃瓜鈥檚 Washington Program, the talk is free and open to the public.p. A columnist for the Washington Post since 1993, Dionne also is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He served as journalist-in-residence for 91吃瓜鈥檚 Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics&Democracy in 1999-2000.p. Dionne is the author of two popular books about contemporary American politics, 鈥淲hy Americans Hate Politics鈥� and 鈥淭hey Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era.鈥� He is the editor of 鈥淐ommunity Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America,鈥� and was co-editor of 鈥淲hat鈥檚 God Got to Do with the American Experiment,鈥� 鈥淏ush v. Gore,鈥� and 鈥淪acred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity?鈥漰. After working for 14 years at The New York Times, Dionne joined the Post in 1990 as a correspondent covering national politics. He is a regular political analyst on National Public Radio and a frequent commentator on CNN, NBC, ABC, PBS and MSNBC.p. A native of Fall River, Mass., he was graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Harvard University in 1973 and received his doctorate from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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