The "Sidney Awards"

New York Times columnist David Brooks announced his "Sydney Awards" in a recent column ("The Sidney Awards") for the best long-form journalistic essays of the year. Two of the four winning essays were mentioned previously on this blog. The Atlantic essay by "Professor X", "In the Basement of the Ivory Tower", was mentioned in this post, "The Next Bubble to Burst in the Deleveraging Process: Higher Education?", and the Portfolio essay by Michael Lewis, "The End of Wall Street's Boom", was mentioned in this eponymous post.