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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.
Articles and Newsletters
"The Imperial Presidency and the War on Terror," Cato Policy Report, March/April 2006.
Opinion and Commentary
"Our Big-Government War on Terror," DC Examiner, July 27, 2010
"Clowns or Killers in al Qaeda," DC Examiner, July 20, 2010
"It's Obama's War, All Right," DC Examiner, July 13, 2010
"More Grade Inflation for President Obama," DC Examiner, July 7, 2010
"US Out of South Korea," DC Examiner, June 29, 2010
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Hayek's Road to Serfdom #1 on Amazon," June 9, 2010
"Download Cult of the Presidency for Free!," June 8, 2010
"Cult Watch," June 4, 2010
"You Feel Me? ," June 2, 2010
"Daddy Issues," June 2, 2010
Events
"The Politics and Law of Immigration," July 21, 2010 [Policy Forum]
"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 his Examiner column on Al Qaeda on WBAL's The Ron Smith Show July 20, 2010 [Flash Audio, 15:14]
"Rerank the Presidents" featuring Gene Healy, July 12, 2010 [Flash Audio, 09:58]
Gene Healy discusses his Examiner op-ed, "It's Time America Had a Fat President," on KTTH's The David Boze Show June 23, 2010 [Flash Audio, 08:52]
"When Not to Blame POTUS" featuring Gene Healy, June 3, 2010 [Flash Audio, 08:19]
Gene Healy discusses the BP oil spill on WBAL's The C4 Show June 3, 2010 [Flash Audio, 06:53]
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