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Net Effects

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Net Effects

Athletics & Cultural Confusion
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America After Christianity

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Supreme Thinking

Christianity & the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
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Good Bad Examples

38:3 — may/june 2025

Good Bad Examples

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The Gnostic Thread

38:3 — may/june 2025

The Gnostic Thread

The Anti-Christian Rush Toward Disembodiment
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Little Acquiescences

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Little Acquiescences

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Make Men Pious Again

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from the archives on imagination (40 articles)

10.4—Fall 1997

Lessons from the Nursery

The Catholic Imagination Encounters Bambi by James L. Sauer

18.4—May 2005

Of Weeds & Fairy Tales

The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian

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31.1—January/February 2018

In Defense of Prudery

The Wisdom of the Victorian Quest for Innocence by David Sandifer

24.4—July/August 2011

Global Power Grab

The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan

32.4—July/August 2019

An Alien Warfare

Today's Culture Wars Are Both Ancient & Modern by Allan C. Carlson

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

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A Threefold Cord

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A Sign of Contradiction

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To the Heart of Specificity

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From Heavenly Harmony

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on classical music

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

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Apprehending the Music of Being

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A Thousand Words

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on works of Christian art

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The Cathedral of Monreale

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First Books

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on books for children

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

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North-Central Europe

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Literacy Through Animal Stories

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Mortal Remains

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on theology and culture

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

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The Best of the Good

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Language Notes

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As It Is Written . . .

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on the bible and theology

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All Their Cosmos

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past columns

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21.4 — May 2008

Science Futures

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Right Sacrifice

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A Circle of Love

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Contours of Culture

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on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)

23.5 — September/October 2010

The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis

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The Matter at Hand

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on events of the day
(2002–2005)

17.7 — September 2004

Literary Revelation

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The Ring of Terror

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

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Rediscovering Advent

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The Ascetic Christian

13.7 — September 2000

Knowing God’s Will

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Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

14.6 — July/August 2001

Coming Out of Homosexuality

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25.3 — May/Jun 2012

The Centurion

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8.3 — Summer 1995

Turning Hearts to the Fathers Part I

A Conversation With Thomas C. Oden

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book reviews

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

What Is Memory For?
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35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

The Last Cavalier Poet
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35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Son of Odysseus
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