The installation of four interpretive signs at Saratoga Springs' SoBro Triangle marks a new milestone in transforming a long-neglected former gas station into a thriving native habitat and living classroom at the city's southern gateway.

Combining the club's century-old tradition of thoughtful civic conversation with powerful AI tools, we’re exploring ways to record, preserve, organize, and share Torch Club discussions, transforming them into searchable archives, public history projects, and educational resources.

The former Skidmore president argues that higher education must prepare students not merely for employment, but for citizenship, judgment, and a rapidly changing world shaped by artificial intelligence.

In our Zoom conversation, John Oliver introduced us to a George Washington we’ve never known — a disciplined, conflicted, and deeply human figure shaped by ambition, failure, loyalty, and restraint. It’s also the story of a man who loved horses.

AI poses ‘the biggest change-management problem in human history,' says Patrick Lynch. It’s transforming the very systems through which organizations think, decide, and govern themselves.

Philip Glotzbach has spent a career asking what higher education is for—not just what it delivers—and his reflections arrive at a moment when students, parents, and institutions alike are rethinking the meaning of college in an age of rapid technological and social change.

Abby Tegnelia is helping redefine what local journalism can look like in the digital age, using the Saratoga Dispatch to rebuild the connective tissue that once held communities together through shared information. Her work invites readers to reconsider not just how news is delivered, but how a region tells its own story and sustains an informed civic life.

Matt Veitch is stepping from the negotiating table to the archives, trading 18 years of civic leadership for the work of preserving Saratoga’s story. We explore how a fifth-generation Saratogian plans to bring the city’s history into the digital age and make it accessible to everyone.

Nathan Richardson channeled the towering spirit of the abolitionist — squared shoulders, steady gaze, and a voice resonant with conviction.

This series marked the beginning of our collaboration with the Saratoga Book Festival and the Academy for Lifelong Learning.

Seeing the potential for a great collaboration, we demonstrated the remarkable powers of AI to Saratoga Torch Club President Gerald Stulc, generating in a couple of hours a magazine-length profile in the style of Ernest Hemingway.

When Skidmore College political science professor Beau Breslin invited first-year student Prairie Gunnels to explore what a U.S. Constitution written by Generation Z might look like—with help from ChatGPT—it sparked a groundbreaking experiment in civic imagination.

What if the U.S. Constitution were rewritten every generation? In a thought experiment that began in 2010, Beau Breslin explores Thomas Jefferson’s vision of generational renewal—culminating in a bold call for a constitutional convention.

He envisioned more poetry and campus walks when he attained emeritus status, but instead answered a spritiual call to compassion and justice and founded the Saratoga Immigration Coalition.