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38:5 — sept/oct 2025
Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson
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In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay
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How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson
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Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man
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The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
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Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?
The Politicization of Pediatrics in America by Alexander F. C. Webster
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Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen
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From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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The Leading Edge
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21.4 — May 2008
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.4 — July/August 2013
Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
22.7 — September/October 2009
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Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity
The Matter at Hand
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
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Interviews
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Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures
An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.
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35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
What Is Memory For?
Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph T. Stuart
A review by James E. Person, Jr.
35.1 — January/February, 2022
Greek Odyssey
Fish Out of Water: A Search for
the Meaning of Life by Eric Metaxas
A review by Louis Markos
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One Big Phony War
Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World by David Hutchings and James C. Ungureanu
A review by Max Longley
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
Gnostic Anti-Sexuals
Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
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