Archive for Gene Healy
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Modern political discourse often treats democracy as if it were synonymous with liberty. In The Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria aims to refute that facile notion and reinvigorate the distinction between the two. As Zakaria puts it, pithily: “The execution of Socrates was democratic but not liberal.” Zakaria’s book is an extended brief against the [...]
2Jul2010 | Gene Healy | 2 comments | ContinuedBlurring the Civilian-Military Line
Gene Healy is senior editor at the Cato Institute. The soldier’s mission, as soldiers often phrase it, is “killing people and breaking things,” and they’re trained accordingly. In contrast, police officers, ideally, are trained to operate in an environment where constitutional rights apply and to use force only as a last resort. Accordingly, Americans going [...]
1Feb2003 | Gene Healy | 3 comments | ContinuedStates’ Rights Revisited
Lamenting the Supreme Court’s recent batch of pro-federalism decisions, the New York Times termed the Court’s newfound affinity for states’ rights “Supreme mischief,” “deeply disturbing” to right-thinkers everywhere. One expects such talk from dedicated cheerleaders for centralized power. What’s more disturbing, however, is the extent to which the Times’s perspective has gained credence among advocates [...]
1Dec1999 | Gene Healy | 7 comments | ContinuedStar-Spangled Men: America’s Ten Worst Presidents by Nathan Miller
Scribner • 1998 • 272 pages • $23.00 Gene Healy is a student at the University of Chicago Law School. Historians who evaluate American presidents suffer from a bias against inaction. In the conventional view, great presidents are the nation builders and the war leaders; the failures are the ones who “never did anything.” Nathan [...]
1Mar1999 | Gene Healy | 0 comments | Continued-
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