2003 Annual Essay Competition

Topic: "Can Security, Liberty, and Privacy Be Reconciled in the Fight Against Terrorism?"

2003 Winners
1st prize: Michael L. Hogan, Antioch College, "On the Need for an Open and Free Society"
2nd prize: Jason Hemmendinger, Suffolk County Community College, "The Greatest Threat to the American Way of Life: Terrorism or the Pursuit of Security?"
3rd prize: Elana Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley, "Big Brother Logs In"
4th prize: Paige E. Kohn, The Ohio State University, "Retaining Liberty in the Face of Terrorism"

2002 Annual Essay Competition

Topic: "Is the Business of Government Business?
What Should Government Do? What Should the Private Sector Do?"

2002 Winners
First Prize: Max Vilimpoc, The Ohio State University, "Privatization, Government, and Economics"
Second Prize: Tyler Will, Duke University, "The Privatization of Social Security"
Third Prize: Corinne Lea Rosen, The Ohio State University, Private Prisons: A New Free Market Enterprise"
Fourth Prize: Svilen Karaivanow, Trinity College, "Privatization and Foreign Investment in Post-Communist Eastern Europe"

International Winner:

Ajup John, National Law School of India, "Is the Business of Government Business?"

2001 Annual Essay Competition

Topic: "The Internet and The Future of Democracy"

2001 Winners
(click on names for photos and titles for PDF's of essays)
First Prize: Jonathan Karush, University of Pennsylvania, The Internet and the Future of Democracy
Second Prize:Max Vilimpoc, the Ohio State University, The Net Effect on Popular Participation in Government
Third Prize: Wendy Wong, University of California at Berkeley,Democracy and the Internet:
Why it May not Matter Just Yet

Press release announcing winners