The Douglas B. Rogers Conditions of a Free Society Essay Competition

Winning Essays

First Place 

 Frédéric Bastiat and the Analysis of the State:
A Bastiat-Inspired Theory of Government Intervention
 Holden Diethorn
Saint Vincent College

Second Place 

 Degrees of Statism
 Nikita Chirkov
Trinity University

Third Place 

 The “Great Fiction” of the State:
Re-fusing American Conservatives and Libertarians Behind Classical-Liberalism
 Danielle Charette
Swarthmore College

 Honorable Mentions 

Alexander Brown
Grove City College

Kerry Hunt
University of Notre Dame

Jonathan Miller
Carnegie Mellon University

Warren Mills
Troy University

Kadeem Noray
Hillsdale College