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Gene Healy
Vice President
Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute. His research interests include executive power and the role of the presidency, as well as federalism and overcriminalization. He is the author of 2008's The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, and the editor of the 2004 collection Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything. Healy has appeared on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's Talk of the Nation, and his writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Legal Times, and elsewhere. He is also a weekly columnist for the Washington Examiner. Healy holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226
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 Tim 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
"Time for Question Time?," DC Examiner, February 9, 2010
"South of the Border, the Cult of the Presidency," DC Examiner, February 2, 2010
"Tuning out the State of the Union," DC Examiner, January 26, 2010
"Massachusetts Election Refutes Weak Tea Conservatism," DC Examiner, January 19, 2010
"He's the President, Not America's 'Daddy'," DC Examiner, January 12, 2010
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Our Inescapable President," October 21, 2009
"Obama: 'All Part of the Job'," October 19, 2009
"The Emperor's Green Clothes," October 2, 2009
"You Don't Have to Be a Czar, Baby, to Be in My Show," September 22, 2009
"Good News: 9/11 Didn't 'Change Everything' ," September 11, 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 discusses the State of the Union address on KOGO's Chip Franklin Mornings January 28, 2010 [Flash Audio, 06:55]
Gene Healy discusses the State of the Union address and his book The Cult of the Presidency on KXL's The Lars Larson Show January 28, 2010 [Flash Audio, 06:49]
Gene Healy discusses the upcoming State of the Union on WSPD's The Brian Wilson Show January 26, 2010 [Flash Audio, 13:29]
Gene Healy discusses Scott Brown's senate win in Massachusetts on WZFG's The Scott Hennen Show January 20, 2010 [Flash Audio, 05:48]
Gene Healy discusses his article Obamacare Is Unconstitutional on KXL's The Lars Larson Show November 24, 2009 [Flash Audio, 10:10]
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