Worth reading the whole piece, with the introduction by judge Justin Smith which thinks about the status of blogs as a form of philosophical writing.

Justin E. H. Smith has picked the three winners:

1. Top Quark, $1000: Wesley Buckwalter, Factive Verbs and Protagonist Projection
2. Strange Quark, $300: Elizabeth Anderson, Recharting the Map of Social and Political Theory: Where is Government? Where is Conservatism?
3. Charm Quark, $200: Thomas Rodham, Democracy is not a truth machine