2008
Bret Stephens
Global View Columnist and Editorial Board Member of The Wall Street Journal

2007
Max Boot
Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations

2006
Mark Steyn
Internationally Syndicated Columnist

2005
Claudia Rosett
Journalist-in-Residence
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

2004
Daniel Paul Henninger
Deputy Editor, Editorial Page
Wall Street Journal

2003
Michael Kelly (posthumously)
Editor-at-Large
The Atlantic Monthly

2002
Victor Davis Hanson
Best-selling author and freelance writer

2001
Jay Nordlinger
Managing Editor
National Review

2000
Tom Flannery
Columnist
The Carbondale News

1999
Jeff Jacoby
Columnist
Boston Globe

Winners of the Collegiate Award

2008
Elise Viebeck
Claremont McKenna College

2007
John Wilson
Claremont McKenna College

2006
Matt Mireles
Columbia University