{{short description|American historian and author (born 1981)}} {{otherpeople5}} {{BLP primary sources|date=March 2023}}
'''Anthony Gregory''' (born January 3, 1981) is an American historian and author. He has published two books on civil liberties in the United States and in the English legal tradition.<ref name=washtimes-interview/><ref>"Anthony Gregory." Department of History, University of California Berkeley. [http://history.berkeley.edu/people/anthony-gregory]</ref> Prior to becoming an academic historian, Gregory published hundreds of essays during his tenure as a research fellow at the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=506|title = Anthony Gregory|publisher = The Independent Institute|accessdate = 2013-10-25}}</ref>
==Education== Gregory received his B.A. (2003), M.A. (2015), and Ph.D. (2020) degrees in history at University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "From War on Crime to Liberal Security State: The New Deal and American Political Legitimacy."<ref>"Class 2020 Virtual Graduation". University of California-Berkeley. May 2020. [https://history.berkeley.edu/class-2020-virtual-graduation]</ref>
==Advocacy work==
Gregory's political views were influenced by those of his parents. His father was an anti-war conservative who voted for George McGovern instead of Richard Nixon because of the latter's support for the Vietnam War; his mother was an anti-Communist immigrant from Korea. Gregory says he became an anarchist in college, after seeing what he considered to be government bungling of its key function of national security during and after the September 11 attacks in 2001.<ref name=washtimes-interview/>
===Humane treatment of US prisoners===
In an interview, Gregory identified prisons as an important political issue that libertarians at large have tended not to care about as much as he thinks they should.<ref name=washtimes-interview/> Gregory's chief criticisms include the imprisonment of non-violent drug offenders, the imprisonment of innocent people due to low evidentiary standards, and the use of methods of imprisonment that are tantamount to torture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.independent.org/2013/10/08/americas-prisons-the-worst-national-disgrace/|title = America's Prisons: The Worst National Disgrace|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|date = 2013-10-08|accessdate = 2013-10-25|publisher = The Independent Institute blog (The Beacon)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-gregory/the-justice-systems-impri_b_1934037.html|title = The Justice System's Imprisonment of Innocent Citizens |date = 2012-10-03|accessdate = 2013-10-25|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|work = The Huffington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://original.antiwar.com/anthony-gregory/2011/10/27/understanding-the-us-torture-state/|title = Understanding the US Torture State|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|publisher = Antiwar.com|date = 2011-10-28|accessdate = 2013-10-25}}</ref>
===Foreign policy=== On foreign policy, Gregory is a proponent of non-interventionism and is critical of neoconservatism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whats-left-of-the-old-right/|title = What's Left of the Old Right| date=6 October 2008 }}</ref>{{primary inline|date=September 2024}}
He has been critical of the Iraq War and other recent international war-like involvement by the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.org/pdf/policy_reports/2011-05-31-what_price_war.pdf|title = What Price War? Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Costs of Conflict|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|date = 2011-05-31|accessdate = 2013-10-26|publisher = The Independent Institute (policy report)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/book-review-the-u-s-war-machine/|title = Book Review: The U.S. War Machine|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|publisher = Future of Freedom Foundation|date = 2012-09-01|accessdate = 2013-10-26}}</ref>{{primary inline|date=September 2024}} Gregory's views on the Iraq War were included in a ''Reason Magazine'' summary of libertarian thoughts on the Iraq War 10 years after the beginning of the war.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/19/the-iraq-war-10-years-later|title = The Iraq War: 10 Years Later: A libertarian forum on the lessons of the Second Gulf War|last = Feeney|first = Michael|date = 2013-03-19|accessdate = 2013-10-26|magazine = Reason Magazine}}</ref>
Gregory has been critical of conscription<ref>{{cite web|url=http://c4ss.org/content/18962|title = The Draft Is And Always Will Be Slavery|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|date = 2013-05-10|accessdate = 2013-10-26|publisher = Center for a Stateless Society}}</ref>{{primary inline|date=September 2024}} and expressed skepticism of Andrew Bacevich's argument that conscription would reduce support for war.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/28/would-conscription-put-the-brakes-on-war|title = Would Conscription Put the Brakes on War? Andrew Bacevich's new book offers a powerful critique of U.S. foreign policy—but the solution it proposes is no remedy|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|magazine = Reason Magazine|date = 2013-09-28|accessdate = 2013-10-26}}</ref>{{primary inline|date=September 2024}}
===Free migration===
Gregory has argued in favor of free migration<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/defense-open-immigration/|title = In Defense of Open Immigration|date = October 1, 2004|accessdate = January 10, 2015|publisher = Future of Freedom Foundation|last = Gregory|first = Anthony}}</ref> and also in favor of amnesty for all illegal immigrants in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-gregory/undocumented-immigrants-amnesty_b_1501547.html|title = Let Them All Stay – Amnesty, Now|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|date = 2012-05-10|accessdate = 2013-10-26|work=Huffington Post}}</ref>
==Books==
Gregory is author of ''The Power of Habeas Corpus in America'' (2013, Cambridge University Press for the Independent Institute).<ref>{{cite book|title = The Power of Habeas Corpus in America|isbn = 978-1-107-03643-7|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|publisher = Cambridge University Press (for The Independent Institute)|year = 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=104|title = The Power of Habeas Corpus in America|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|publisher = The Independent Institute|accessdate = 2013-10-25}}</ref> The book was reviewed by Jonathan Hafetz for ''Reason Magazine''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/18/the-paradox-of-habeas-corpus|title = The Paradox of Habeas Corpus|last = Hafetz|first = Jonathan|date = 2013-06-18|accessdate = 2013-10-25|magazine = Reason Magazine}}</ref> It won the 2013 award for best book on Law & Legal Studies in the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.<ref>{{cite web|title=The PROSE Awards: 2013 Winners|url=http://www.proseawards.com/current-winners-2013.html|publisher=Association of American Publishers|accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref>
He is also the author of ''American Surveillance: Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment'' (2016, University of Wisconsin Press).<ref>{{cite book|title = American Surveillance: Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment|isbn = 978-0299308803|last = Gregory|first = Anthony|publisher = University of Wisconsin Press|year = 2016}}</ref> In his March 2017 article in Harvard's ''Business History Review,'' Josh Lauer summarizes the book's thesis: "Current battles over government spying are clouded by misplaced anxieties and misunderstandings—in particular, confusion about the essential function of government surveillance and the complex legal edifice upon which American privacy rights rest."<ref>Lauer, Josh. ''Business History Review''. Harvard Business School. Volume 90, Issue 4 Winter 2016, pp. 793-796, 794.</ref>
Lauer notes that the book questions the ability of any purely legal reform to curb worrisome developments of the modern surveillance state. Lauer takes issue with Gregory's assertion that "[t]he predicament posed by the NSA, modern police power, and the modern administrative state’s multitude of intrusions into private life is not, ultimately, a legal problem. It is a cultural problem, posed to civilization itself."<ref>''Id.'' at 795.</ref>
==Media==
Gregory was interviewed by ''Washington Times'' writer Joseph S. Diedrich about his personal life and his vision for liberty.<ref name=washtimes-interview>{{cite web|url=http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/business-living/2013/sep/29/libertarian-america-conversation-anthony-gregory/|title = Libertarian America: A conversation with Anthony Gregory|last = Diedrich|first = Joseph|date = 2013-09-29|accessdate = 2013-10-25}}</ref> He has also appeared on ''Freedom Watch'', a show by Judge Andrew Napolitano hosted by the Fox Business Network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diJsLXbPCsM|title = Anthony Gregory on Liberals vs Libertarians| date=18 July 2011 |publisher = Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox Business Network|accessdate = 2013-10-26}}</ref>
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