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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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Reclaiming the Normal Path to Mature Adulthood by Anthony Esolen
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The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
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Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason by Samuel Gregg
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22.3—April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
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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
19.10 — December 2006
19.1 — January/February 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
25.2 — March/April 2012
16.6 — July/August 2003
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.1 — January/February 2010
22.6 — July/August 2009
27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.10 — December 2002
15.8 — October 2002
15.4 — May 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
15.4 — May 2002
17.10 — December 2004
15.1 — January/February 2002
book reviews
38.4 — Jul/Aug, 2025
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
A review by Alexander T. Riley
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
Our One Faith
Light from Light: A Theological Reflection on the Nicene Creed by Robert Barron
A review by Mike Schramm
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
A review by Allan C. Carlson
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