MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Siena Center will conclude its spring series on The Common Good with a lecture by award-winning journalist and commentator E. J. Dionne Jr., titled “The Common Good: Will We Ever Hear About It in a Campaign?” on Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Dionne, a syndicated columnist on national policy and politics for The Washington Post and over 90 other newspapers, will reflect on what the common good means to politicians, political observers and ordinary citizens. Dionne also spent 14 years with the New York Times where he covered state and local government, national politics, and world affairs from bases in Paris, Rome and Beirut. For this lecture, he will share reflections from two decades of covering the national political scene and religion. He will propose ways that the common good offers an agenda for political life and hope for the future.

An award-winning author of over a dozen books including the best-selling Why Americans Hate Politics, which received the Los Angeles Times book prize and was nominated for a National Book Award, Dionne is a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is regularly featured as a political commentator on television and National Public Radio and is a frequent contributor to the current affairs magazine Commonweal. A distinguished Catholic public intellectual, Dionne is the series co-editor for the Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public Life. His most recent book, Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right (2008), will be available for purchase and signing following the lecture. 

Admission for the lecture is $10. For more information on Dominican’s Siena Center, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit www.siena.dom.edu.

Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in the light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world.