Culture, Society, and Freedom of Association

The right to be let alone in a world of cultural diversity The right to be let alone, as Justice Louis Brandeis famously put it in “Olmstead v. United States”, is commonly associated with the right to privacy in the Fourth Amendment. The constitutional “[...] right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures [...]” critically separates the spheres of life and wards off many dangers from the government. However, in a society so culturally diverse as ours, the right to be let alone takes on much greater significance than...

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Fabio Andreotti

Fabio Andreotti is currently pursuing a PhD in law at the University of Zurich and as a visiting researcher at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is co-founder of the Hayek Club Zurich, and he works as an associate fellow with the Liberal Institute, Switzerland.


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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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