Gene Healy

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 “False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency” (2012) and “The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power” (2008) and the editor of “Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything” (2004). Healy has appeared on PBS’s “Newshour with Jim Lehrer” and NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”, and his work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Legal Times, and elsewhere. Healy holds a BA from Georgetown University and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.