Gene Healy
Senior Editor
As senior editor at the Cato Institute, Gene Healy is 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.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226
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
"The Pop Culture Presidency," Forbes.com, May 15, 2008
"The Cult of the Presidency," Reason, May 12, 2008
"Limits on Eavesdropping Need to Stay," by Timothy B. Lee and Gene Healy, Orange County Register, February 19, 2008
"A Presidency Worth Celebrating," Reason (Online), February 18, 2008
"Learning to Love the Imperial Presidency," Reason, September 12, 2007
Multimedia
"Presidential Power Since 9/11" featuring Gene Healy , September 11, 2007 [Flash Audio, 07:50]
"The Imperial Presidency" featuring Gene Healy , July 23, 2007 [Flash Audio, 05:27]
"Presidencies in Review" featuring Gene Healy , December 19, 2006 [Flash Audio, 10:51]
"Neoconservatives and War" featuring Gene Healy , October 17, 2006 [Flash Audio, 11:19]
"The Push to Federalize the National Guard" featuring Gene Healy , August 11, 2006 [Flash Audio, 07:37]