Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and New York Times Contributor E.J. Dionne will talk about the new “values voters,” who cut across secular-religious differences, and continue an American tradition that brings morality to issues of economic justice and the common good.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a distinguished university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, and a senior fellow and W. Averell Harriman Chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times. He is the author or co-author of nine books including, most recently, 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, coauthored with Miles Rapoport. Others include New York Times Bestseller Why the Right Went Wrong, Our Divided Political Heart, and Why Americans Hate Politics. He has been a commentator on NPR and MSNBC and was a columnist for 32 years at the Washington Post.