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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
"Congressional Abdication and the Cult of the Presidency," White House Studies, Volume 10, Number 2 (2010).
"The Imperial Presidency and the War on Terror," Cato Policy Report, March/April 2006.
Opinion and Commentary
"Hassling the Innocent Is TSA's Specialty," DC Examiner, January 29, 2012
"Gingrich Rise Is Triumph of Style over Substance," DC Examiner, January 24, 2012
"After 2008's Hope And Change, It's Sober And Sane for 2012," DC Examiner, January 16, 2012
"Will Congress Stop King Barack the First?," DC Examiner, January 9, 2012
"Five Worst Op-Eds of 2011," DC Examiner, December 27, 2011
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"'Incredible Shrinking Presidency'? I Wish!," September 20, 2011
"Al Qaeda: Never an 'Existential Threat'," September 13, 2011
"Rick Perry, Serious Constitutionalist? ," August 26, 2011
"Fed Up with Phony Federalism," August 23, 2011
"Of Arms and the Guv," August 18, 2011
Events
"The War in Libya: What Is the Role of Congress?," April 5, 2011 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"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]
Multimedia
Gene Healy on his recent Examiner column on Newt Gingrich on TRN's Savage Nation (November 18, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 06:50]
Gene Healy's latest Examiner column on Newt Gingrich is read on the air in its entirety on The Jerry Doyle Show (November 16, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 03:35]
Gene Healy on his recent Examiner column on Newt Gingrich on WBAL (November 16, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 07:30]
Gene Healy discusses his Examiner piece on executive privilege on WBAL's Ron Smith Show (November 10, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 07:53]
The Risks of Terrorism (September 12, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 10:48]
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