{{short description|American journalist (born 1970)}} {{Infobox person |name=Gene Healy |image=Gene Healy on Reason TV.jpg |caption=Healy on Reason TV in 2021 |birth_date={{Birth date and age|1970|11|16}} |birth_place=United States |alma_mater=Georgetown University<br>University of Chicago Law School |occupation=Journalist }}
'''Gene Healy''' (born November 16, 1970) is an American libertarian political pundit, journalist, and editor. He serves as senior vice president for policy at the Cato Institute and is a contributing editor to ''Liberty'' magazine.
==Education== Healy holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.<ref name="nprdebate">{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/2015/04/07/398065156/debate-has-the-president-exceeded-his-war-powers-authority | title=Debate: Has The President Exceeded His War Powers Authority? | publisher=NPR.org | date=April 7, 2015 | accessdate=November 28, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Gene Healy">{{cite web|title=Policy Scholars: Gene Healy |url=http://www.cato.org/people/gene-healy|publisher=Cato Institute|accessdate=December 27, 2012}}</ref>
==Career== Healy is editor of the 2004 book ''Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything''. He is the author of ''The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power'' (2008) and ''False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency'' (2012).<ref name="nprdebate"/><ref name="Gene Healy"/><ref>Balko, Radley (March 15, 2013). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/obama-civil-liberties-and_n_2885529.html?1363377190 "Obama, Civil Liberties, And The Presidency: An Interview With Gene Healy"], ''The Huffington Post''.</ref><ref name="grand">{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylesmith/2012/10/31/the-grand-obama-illusion-major-promises-never-delivered/ | title=The Grand Obama Illusion: Major Promises Never Delivered | work=Forbes | date=October 31, 2012 | accessdate=November 28, 2015 | author=Smith, Kyle}}</ref> His research interests include executive power and the role of the presidency, federalism, and over-criminalization.<ref name="nprdebate"/><ref name="Gene Healy" /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/libertarians-arent-all-selfish-jerks/240757/ | title=Libertarians Aren't All Selfish Jerks | work=The Atlantic | date=June 21, 2011 | accessdate=November 28, 2015 | author=Friedersdorf, Conor}}</ref><ref name="mistake">{{cite web | url=https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/05/26/gop-agrees-bush-was-wrong-to-invade-iraq-now-what | title=The Great Iraq Mistake | work=U.S. News & World Report | date=May 26, 2015 | accessdate=November 28, 2015 |author1=Cella, Matthew |author2=Shinkman , Paul D. | quote="...Gene Healy, who studies executive power as a vice president at the Cato Institute."}}</ref>
Healy has appeared on PBS's ''Newshour'' and has been a guest on NPR's ''Talk of the Nation''. His writing has been published in major newspapers including the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''New York Times'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', and the ''Legal Times''.<ref name="nprdebate"/><ref name="Gene Healy" /> He writes a weekly column for the ''Washington Examiner''.<ref name="Gene Healy" />
==Views== In 2011, Healy made the case that Ronald Reagan was neither a neoconservative,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/reagan-was-no-neocon | title=Reagan Was No Neocon| date=February 2011}}</ref> nor a libertarian.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/ronald-reagan-was-no-libertarian | title=Ronald Reagan Was No Libertarian| date=2011-02-08}}</ref> In 2013, Healy argued that wanting restraint in foreign policy is not "isolationist" and stated that isolationism "has always been a smear word designed to shut off debate. It was coined in the late 19th century by Alfred Thayer Mahan, 'an ardent militarist, who used the term to slur opponents of American imperialism.{{' "}}<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/its-not-isolationist-for-america-to-mind-its-own-business/article/2540441 | title=It's not isolationist for America to mind its own business| date=2013-12-10}}</ref> In 2014, Healy criticized Hillary Clinton's interventionist foreign policy, saying, "I think when you look at the totality of her record, it's very concerning. And if she realizes her lifelong dream in 2016 to become commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, she won't have to urge anyone to bomb. She'll be able to give those orders herself."<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/18002-youve-been-warned-america-hillary-clinton-has-never-met-a-war-she-didnt-like | title=You've been warned, America: Hillary Clinton has never met a war she didn't like | access-date=2018-08-28 | archive-date=2018-08-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828134759/http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/18002-youve-been-warned-america-hillary-clinton-has-never-met-a-war-she-didnt-like | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Bibliography== * ''Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything'' (editor) (2004) {{ISBN|978-1930865631}} * ''The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power'' (2008) {{ISBN|978-1933995199}} * ''False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency'' (2012) {{ISBN|978-1933995199}} * {{cite encyclopedia |author= <!-- |editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy --> |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |chapter= Drug Prohibition|chapter-url=https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/libertarianism/n81.xml |edition= |year=2008 |publisher= Sage; Cato Institute |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |isbn= 978-1412965804 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |pages= 128–129 |quote= |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n81 }}
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==External links== * {{C-SPAN|1009260}} * [http://www.cato.org/people/healy.html Biography at the Cato Institute] * [http://archive.lewrockwell.com/healy/healy-arch.html Gene Healy: Archives] on ''LewRockwell.com''
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