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Gene Healy
Vice President
Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute. Healy was formerly senior editor, and was responsible for reviewing and editing Cato policy studies and other publications. His research interests include federalism, criminal justice, constitutional war powers, civil liberties, and the war on terror. From 1994 to 1996, Healy served as managing editor of Cato's Regulation magazine. He returned to Cato in October 2001 after law school and two years of private practice as an attorney in the commercial litigation group at the law firm Howrey Simon Arnold & White. Healy is a contributing editor to Liberty magazine, editor of Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. His writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere. Healy holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
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E-Mail: ghealy@cato.org
Books and Book Chapters
"Reclaiming the War Power," Chapter 10 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.
The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, author (2008)
Go Directly To Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything, editor (2004)
"Reclaiming the War Power," Chapter 11, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress, (2003).
"Reclaiming the War Power," Chapter 7, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 107th Congress, (2001).
Cato Studies
"Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush," by Gene Healy and Timothy Lynch, White Paper, May 1, 2006.
"Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front," Policy Analysis no. 503, December 17, 2003.
"There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to "Help" Localities Fight Gun Crime," Policy Analysis no. 440, May 28, 2002.
"Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years," Policy Analysis no. 389, December 13, 2000.
Opinion and Commentary
"Obama's Statist Ambitions," DC Examiner, June 30, 2009
"Staying in Afghanistan Is the Wrong Strategy," DC Examiner, June 23, 2009
"The "Militia Panic" of 2009," DC Examiner, June 16, 2009
"Sotomayor: A Presidential Power Skeptic?," DC Examiner, June 9, 2009
"Voters Are the Cause of America's Fiscal Mess," DC Examiner, June 2, 2009
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Neoconsensus," May 22, 2009
"Dick Cheney: Obama's Enabler," May 19, 2009
"Cultwatch: Union Station, New York Times," May 17, 2009
"Obama's First Signing Statement," March 19, 2009
"A National Talk-Show Host with Nuclear Weapons," February 24, 2009
Events
"Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depression," June 1, 2009 [Conference]
"Obama and Presidential Power: Change or Continuity?," February 25, 2009 [Policy Forum]
"The Cult of the Presidency," November 4, 2008 [Book Forum]
"Is American Liberty Imperiled?," December 14, 2004 [Book Forum]
Multimedia
Gene Healy on new powers for the executive on Good Morning America June 17, 2009 [Flash Video, 02:09]
Gene Healy discusses the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor on WBAL's The Ron Smith Show June 9, 2009 [Flash Audio, 07:30]
Gene Healy discusses the Gitmo detainees on BBC News 24 UK May 21, 2009 [Flash Video, 02:59]
Gene Healy discusses the DHS' domestic terrorism dictionary on Moody Broadcasting's Radio America May 6, 2009 [Flash Audio, 07:55]
Gene Healy cited by a WSAV Coastal Sunrise anchor on Obama's first 100 days in office April 28, 2009 [Flash Video, 00:24]