Contest: The American Idea

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For our 150th anniversary issue (November 2007), we invited an eclectic group of novelists, poets, inventors, businessmen, jurists, politicians, artists, and others to contribute short essays on the American idea, its future, and the greatest challenges it faces. Participants included John Updike, Azar Nafisi, Cornel West, David Foster Wallace, Nancy Pelosi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Pinsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Bernard Lewis, Arianna Huffington, Eric Schlosser, William F. Buckley Jr., and Tom Wolfe, among others.

We now invite Atlantic readers to submit their own short essays (of 200 words or fewer) on the American idea. We will publish the best of these essays in a future issue of the magazine. The winner—along with five honorable mention recipients—will also receive a signed copy of The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly; 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History, a new anthology compiled by Atlantic editor-at-large Robert Vare. Entries must be submitted by November 16.

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