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38:5 — sept/oct 2025
Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
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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from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)
32.6—November/December 2019
An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
22.3—April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles
29.3—May/June 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
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37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024
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38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025
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As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
19.3 — April 2006
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
19.7 — September 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
19.3 — April 2006
20.6 — July/August 2007
21.2 — March 2008
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.3 — May/June 2010
24.5 — Sept/Oct 2011
24.4 — July/August 2011
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.9 — November 2002
15.3 — April 2002
15.5 — June 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
9.1 — Winter 1996
11.5 — September/October 1998
15.5 — June 2002
book reviews
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
A review by Allan C. Carlson
35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
Papist Patriots
Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America by Michael D. Breidenbach
A review by Thomas W. Jodziewicz
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.
35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
Capturing Audiences
C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication by Steven Beebe
A review by Arthur W. Hunt III
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