I need to begin with a correction. A year ago, our winter issue featured a jointly-authored piece by Linda Porter of the Youngstown club and Joseph Huber of the Akron club, who took up different positions on the question, "Is a Liberal Arts Education Still Applicable in Today's World?" I thought we were breaking new ground, but this was actually the second time the pages of The Torch provided a debate platform. My predecessor and friend, Reed Taylor, writes, "Actually, while I served as Editor the same club (Youngstown) contributed a debate on Keynesian Economics by John Fockler and Donald K. Allen. It's in the Spring 2011 issue, Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 20-23."

    I checked, and indeed, there it was.

    The back issues of The Torch contain many such gems, which is why with this issue we inaugurate a series of reprinted articles from past issues—our own small hall of fame, as it were. In the closing pages of this issue, you will find "Minstrel, oh Minstrel, Sing Me a Cause," a survey of folk singer and activist Pete Seeger's career by Seymour Raiz of the Columbus club. It first appeared in the Winter issue of 1994, Vol. 67, No. 2.

    No new formats in our Winter 2020 issue—just the usual intelligent, informative, articulate, and thought-provoking articles The Torch has been publishing for many years.

    Timothy Anderson of the Tom Carroll Lincoln club introduces us to Joseph La Flesche, a man who stood at a critical juncture in the intersecting histories of his people, the Omaha, and the United States, in "The Life and Death of a Make-Believe White Man."

    Analyses of the political climate by two-time Paxton winner Roland Moy of the High Country club of North Carolina (this summer's convention hosts) have become a regular feature

    in The Torch, and "The Perils of Political Logic and Rhetoric for American Democracy" is a timely read as we head into a presidential election year.

    The Richmond club's Harry Wistrand has also appeared in our pages before. His "Charles Darwin: The Beagle Years" picks up the thread of his narrative of Darwin's life from the point to which he had brought it in our Spring 2018 issue.

    Patrick Kofalt of the Winchester club recounts a remarkable example of the complexity of doing the right thing in "The Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews."

    The highly fortunate Winchester club is also Torch home to Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, whose article on aging appeared in our Spring 2012 issue, and who here illuminates one of the more remarkable aspects of our DNA in "Telescoping Telomeres."

    Martha Gadberry of the Tom Carroll Lincoln club (it's not her first time in The Torch, either, by the way) takes a longer view of our impending national election year by taking us back to the summer of 1787 and the writing of the Constitution in "Are We There Yet?"