E.J. Dionne Jr. is the author, most recently, of Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right. He is a Washington Post columnist, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University.
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Is There Such a Thing as Progressive Nationalism?
In his most recent books, John Judis makes the case that there is—and that by indiscriminately embracing globalism, many liberals helped create nationalism’s virulent Trumpian version. Read more
Leading from the Left
For Ted Kennedy, political leadership meant moving public opinion—not chasing after an elusive center. Read more
The Politics of the New Middle America
In 2010, disaffected voters didn't embrace the Republican vision. They looked in vain for the Democratic one. Read more
Practical Liberalism Redux
Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barack Obama is capable of being a pragmatic progressive. Read more
The Right in the Rearview Mirror
It took liberals 30 years to take conservatism seriously. Now we're obsessed with it. E.J. Dionne considers four new books about the end of the conservative era. Read more
Back from the Dead: Neoprogressivism in the '90s
The conservative revolution turned out to be less than a mandate. Can the various factions that call themselves progressive get behind a common vision? Read more
The Quest for Community (Again)
Somewhere between the capitalist’s market and the citizen’s state lies the lost land of community, sought after by humane conservatives, liberals, and social democrats alike. Herewith a modest progressive agenda for repairing some of the damage modernity has done to one of civil society’s foundations—the family. Read more
