E. J. DIONNE, JR. is an award-winning journalist and political commentator who appears regularly on MSNBC, NPR¿s All Things Considered, and ABC News¿ This Week. He is currently a William F. Bloomberg Visiting Professor at Harvard University, with a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard¿s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dionne is also a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University.