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E. J. Dionne Jr. Both Good & Great Learning to love dave brubeck It was a conversation representative of the era: Somewhere around 1969 or 1970, my dear, conservative Uncle Ray asked his son...

Beyond Austerity (April 2012)

E.J. Dionne Jr. Beyond Austerity EUROPE’S LEFT SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE A crisis of capitalism is supposed to create an opening for the political left. But in Europe, the place where the concept of...

Call Their Bluff (January 2010)

Columnists E. J. Dionne Jr. Call Their Bluff WILL THE TEA PARTY CROWD STAND UP TO WALL STREET? If you held a contest to pick the worst thing a politician could be called at this...

Nobel Nastiness (October 2009)

E. J. Dionne Jr. Nobel Nastiness HOW OBAMA CAN SILENCE HIS CRITICS It is a sign of our weird political moment that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama will probably...

Shot Down (July 2008)

Shot Down sequoyacountysherrif.org Free to regulate? E. J. Dionne Jr. what¡¯s behind the Court¡¯s Gun-Control deCision Supreme Court again dem- In knocking down the Dis- Here is what the...

Outsourcing blame (March 2004)

,fit =r.= . •, . a t s. ,t' R:s a s .w u< AL ^k iOF F SEVERAL MIN DS E.J. DIONNE Jr. OUTSOURCING BLAME The president's economic policy hio's unemployment rate is higher than the national...

Big spenders (December 2003)

OF SEVERAL MINDS E.J. DIONNE Jr. BIG SPENDERS The new Republican philosophy President George W. Bush likes to talk about the need for "fiscal sanity in Washington." His decision to run up the...

Lawsuits & price controls (July 2001)

OF SEVERAL MINOS E.J. DIONNE Jr. LAWSUITS & PRICE CONTROLS Where economics & politics meet Republicans are supposed to be the party of states' rights. Democrats are supposed to be the...

The never-ending tax bill: Reading the fine print on President Bush's big shell game. (June 2001)

OF SEVERAL HINDS E.J. DIONNE Jr. THE NEVER-ENDING TAX BILL Check the expiration date George W. Bush's big tax cut is now a reality. So you know what will happen when the president...

Tax cuts:The ghost of Steve Forbes (March 2001)

OF S I V E R A L N I N D S E.J. DIPNNE Jr. TAX CUTS All the public policy Bush needs When President Bush visited the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange earlier this month—the...

Still fighting the Civil War?: Two nominees should explain (January 2001)

E.J. DIONNE Jr. STILL FIGHTING THE CIVIL WAR? Ask Ashcroft & Norton about states' rights Thanks to George W. Bush's two most controversial cabinet nominees, our nation is about to rejoin the...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (January 2001)

Mashed potatoes The Bush II administration is looking a lot like Bush I, though it also bears some resemblance to the Nixon-Ford and Reagan years. In choosing cabinet members and close...

Crossing the line (December 2000)

tive vice president for alternative programming, put it, "the we are assured, there is no need to worry about any public couple most in love wins." humiliation...

Unions & Gore (November 2000)

diminish its influence on those who do antipoverty program. But what is the or candidate to bring to an end. Ameri- win elections. Nonpartisanship has its best way to create jobs?...

Follow the (tax) money (July 2000)

anti-abortion Catholic can expect to re- When I argue with non-Catholics about The secular alternative, the personal ceive, he assured his readers that her po- an issue like...

Keeping promises (May 2000)

And still, much as I can sympathize Jesus-even when we feel entombed, hope lies in the restoration of this es- with the disgust of the leave-takers, I think like Lazarus. The...

Is the tax revolt over? (May 2000)

her life according to them, not by any even worth discussing. dian, now at roughly $46,700, is smack arbitrary standards the world threw at When I turned...

Vouchers COLUMNISTS (March 2000)

understanding of God's power tends to apply to anything that matters most to mous) range of phenomena. The realm be distorted by such notions as God as us. I cannot be sure...

THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum: Even the pope (November 1999)

• The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism EJ. Dionne, Jr. We're All Liberals Now Even the pope First of all, I think we might imagine today's event as a three-hour rebuttal to Governor...

Campaign spending (September 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS E.J. DIONNE, Jr. CAMPAIGN SPENDING Business cries uncle N o one is more fiercely con sistent in opposing reform of our broken campaign money system than Senator...

Jobs work: Solving the inflation-unemployment riddle. (June 1999)

END GAME Is the war over or not? While the world waits for the Yugoslav military to cut a deal with NATO, every complaint, paranoid and otherwise, about the war and the putative peace has made its...

Unlikely hawks (May 1999)

E.J. DI9MNE, Jr, UNLIKELY HAWKS The war on the left t "is not where I usually find myself," mused Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), who is far more comfortable opposing military action than...

Tax cuts for the rich (March 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS E.J. DIONNE, Jr. TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH John Kasich's trickle-down economy H arables are not just the stuff of the Bible. They're an essential part of politics. Persuading...

Democrats strike gold (February 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS E.J. DIONNE, Jr. DEMOCRATS STRIKE GOLD California's new politics If California is still the place where the future happens first, Republicans may want to bring back the past. In...

Nero redivivus (October 1998)

itself, to delight in the feelings we now have about being part of the church, to belong too easily--dangerous, because it lulls us into forgetting that during the liturgy we are taking the...

A victory over Nike (June 1998)

C onsumers and workers of the world, unite--Just do it! If you do, you can affect the behavior of manufacturing giants such as Nike, for whom image is everything. Nike Inc.'s announcement...

Clinton's day of reckoning (April 1998)

o when does it end? Will we spend the next twenty-two months talking about President Bill Clinton's sex life? True, it's not just about sex. It's about character and, perhaps, obstruction...

Karla Tucker's legacy (February 1998)

own progeny, but there was also a great deal of altruism involved. I try to explain to young people that before the world changed, the main channel for youthful desires ~o serve others was...

Re: Clinton & Lewinsky (February 1998)

Jesus tells his disciples, "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love....This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you'(John 15: 9, 12). And...

Mr. Clean gets soiled (September 1997)

one seven-room apartment. Many more magical effects can be encountered outside in cars, planes, airports, office buildings, streets, stores, factories, and hospitals. God help you when you are...

Affirmative action (September 1997)

E.J. OIONNE, Jr. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION just & unjust at the same time resident Bill Clinton's initiative on race is already running into the classic problem of American ven tures in brotherhood and...

Critics' choices for Christmas: (December 1993)

BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas of a better Christmas gift for a young But I cannot recall my reading life...

Capitalism with soul? (May 1993)

CAPITALISM WITH SOUL? E.J. DIONNE, JR. NOVAK ON THE CATHOLIC ETHIC Pope John Paul TI's...

Skepticism softens (January 1993)

the political philosopher William A. Galston wrote enthusias- mains a much greater passion than either sharing or expanding tically of President-elect Bill Clinton's use of communitarian ...

Mr. Mitterand & Mr Reagan (June 1981)

standards and styles of behavior, but this does not mean that all such standards and styles are of equal worth or even valid for most people. The Swedes, while trying to be all things to all...

The Scarlet letter (October 1980)

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Labor's love lost: (May 1979)

suggest that Labor in fact reconciled the incompatibles by Election in...

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