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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
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
"New President Won't Tame Executive Power," Orange County Register, October 14, 2008
"A Profile in Cowardice," National Review (Online), September 25, 2008
"A President, Not a Savior," Christian Science Monitor, August 28, 2008
"The Pop Culture Presidency," Forbes.com, May 15, 2008
"The Cult of the Presidency," Reason, May 12, 2008
Multimedia
Gene Healy discusses the Pentagon's new plan to deploy 20,000 U.S. Army troops inside the U.S. on Salon.com's "Glenn Greenwald Radio" December 2, 2008 [Flash Audio, 26:57]
"A New Chapter in the Cult of the Presidency" featuring Gene Healy, November 5, 2008 [Flash Audio, 06:03]
Gene Healy discusses a possible "super three" on CNN Radio October 24, 2008 [Flash Audio, 00:38]
October 10, 2008: Gene Healy discusses attitudes toward executive power in the 1930s. [Flash Video, 05:27]
Gene Healy discusses his book The Cult of the Presidency on KPFA's The Evening News October 5, 2008 [Flash Audio, 01:36]