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SUMMARY:E.J. Dionne\, Jr. and Christine Emba
DESCRIPTION:Leading the fourth installment of a five-part weeklong deep dive into “The 2026 Election: What’s at Stake?\,” renowned scholars E.J. Dionne\, Jr. and Christine Emba join in conversation for a deeper look into the role of culture in American public and political life\, particularly addressing the generational differences and divides that show up in these deeply intertwined components of our national dialogue. The program is presented at Chautauqua in partnership with the American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institution\, each featuring experts from both organizations. \nLater in the day at 2:00 p.m.\, Dionne will be speaking at the Hall of Philosophy for the Interfaith Lecture Series.  \nE.J. Dionne\, Jr. is a senior fellow and the W. Averell Harriman Chair in American Governance in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. He is also a Distinguished University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University\, affiliated with the McCourt School of Public Policy\, and a contributing columnist to The New York Times.   \nDionne began his career with The New York Times\, reporting on state and local government\, national politics\, and from around the world\, including stints in Paris\, Rome\, and Beirut. In 1990\, Dionne joined The Washington Post as a reporter covering national politics\, and was a columnist for The Post from 1993 to 2025\, when he became a Times contributor. He was an NPR commentator for two decades.  \nHis 1991 best-selling book\, Why Americans Hate Politics\, won The Los Angeles Times book prize\, and was a National Book Award nominee. He is the author and co-author of eight other books\, editor and co-editor of six volumes published by the Brookings Institution Press and co-editor of a collection of the speeches made by Barack Obama.  \nDionne has received numerous awards\, including the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award\, Volunteers of America Empathy Award\, the National Human Services Assembly’s Award for Excellence by a Member of the Media and the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s Hillman Award for Career Achievement. He has been named among the 25 most influential Washington journalists by the National Journal and among the capital city’s top 50 journalists by the Washingtonian magazine. He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.   \nDionne grew up in Fall River\, Mass. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard University and received his doctorate from Oxford University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  \nChristine Emba is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute\, where her work focuses on gender and sexuality\, feminism\, masculinity\, youth culture and social norms. She is concurrently a contributing writer at The New York Times and a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.  \nEmba is a contributing editor at Comment Magazine\, a board member at the American Institute for Boys and Men and an editor-at-large at Wisdom of Crowds. She is the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation.  \nBefore joining AEI\, Emba was a staff writer at The Atlantic\, a columnist and editor at The Washington Post\, a Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion and a deputy editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit.  \nEmba has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. She was named one of the world’s top-50 thinkers by Prospect Magazine in 2022 and received the National Press Club’s Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism in 2024.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/e-j-dionne-jr-and-christine-emba/
LOCATION:Amphitheater\, Amphitheater
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Lecture Series,Weekly Themes,Week Three (July 11–18),CHQ Assembly
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