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The Choice Between Contemplation & Control of Nature by Nicholas E. Ziegenhagen
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St. Antony’s Guide to Resisting the Transhumanist Temptation by C. R. Wiley
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on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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31.2—March/April 2018
The Transmission of Christianity Is Not a New Task by Nathanael Devlin
22.3—April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
19.6 — July/August 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
18.8 — October 2005
23.4 — July/August 2010
16.6 — July/August 2003
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.3 — May/June 2013
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor
27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014
24.1 — January/February 2011
James Turner's Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.8 — October 2002
17.7 — September 2004
16.1 — January/February 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
9.4 — Fall 1996
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15.6 — July/August 2002
An Interview with Norwegian Dissident Roald Flemestad
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Closing Argument
What Is Christianity? The Last Writings of Benedict XVI
A review by John R. Stephenson
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Art & Human Ends
Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts by Daniel McInerny
A review by Louise McCray
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
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38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
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