Civic Conversations
Interpreting Frederick Douglass
Join the Saratoga Torch Club on Monday, November 17, at the Saratoga Springs Holiday for Nathan Richardson’s powerful interpretation of Frederick Douglass. Audiencies often say they feel they’re actually in the comany of the great abolitionist.
The Imperative for Constitutional Renewal
Has our reverence for an unchanging Constitution become a liability? At the Saratoga Torch Club dinner on Monday, Oct. 20, Skidmore’s Beau Breslin and Prairie Gunnels will make the case for writing it anew.
Safford and Madigan Face Off
In a tense, no-audience debate broadcast by CBS 6, Mayor John Safford and challenger Michele Madigan clashed over homelessness, housing, and civility in Saratoga Springs.
A Man Who Would Not Stop Learning
From the operating room to the Navy, from canvas to the page, Gerald Stulc brings his lifelong passion for learning and teaching to the Academy for Lifelong Learning.
‘A National Conversation Waiting to Happen’
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.
Can the Constitution Save Us? Beau Breslin’s Jeffersonian Turn
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.
