january / february

Knot Now

39:1 — jan/feb 2026

Knot Now

Brad Wilcox & Grant Bailey on the Case for Twenty-Something Marriages

Camp Mystic

39:1 — jan/feb 2026

Camp Mystic

A Meditation on Childhood, Suffering & Longing by Sarah Winter

Male Pattern Boldness

39:1 — jan/feb 2026

Male Pattern Boldness

Restoring Masculinity Outside the Feminist Frame by Mark Perkins

Nothing Personal

39:1 — jan/feb 2026

Nothing Personal

Sexual Functionalism & Promiscuous Habits in Tolstoy's The Devil by Michial Farmer

Set Out into Deep Waters

39:1 — jan/feb 2026

Set Out into Deep Waters

Daring to Seek Meaning & Magnificence by Anthony Esolen

conference videos (see all)

America After Christianity

September 27, 2024

Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment

—John Daniel Davidson

September 28, 2024

The Urgency of Wonder

—Rod Dreher

September 26, 2024

Principles for Living in the Negative World

—Aaron Renn

from the archives on philosophy (76 articles)

25.6—Nov/Dec 2012

Clashing Symbols

The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft

29.5—Sept/Oct 2016

The True Atheist Myth

on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness by Jordan Bissell

from the archives on culture (298 articles)

35.2—Mar/Apr 2022

Say Something

on Fatigued Christians Deciding to Engage the Culture by Keith Lowery

30.6—Nov/Dec 2017

The Greatness Commission

Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen

33.1—January/February 2020

Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?

The Politicization of Pediatrics in America by Alexander F. C. Webster

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

39.1 — Jan/Feb 2026

Filled with the Savior

38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025

Four Feasts

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Hymns of Creation

(See all)

From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

(See all)

A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

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First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

39.1 — Jan/Feb 2026

North Africa

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Reading About the Holocaust

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

(See all)

Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

39.1 — Jan/Feb 2026

Final Words on Preaching

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Vanity & the Work of the Cobbler

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

39.1 — Jan/Feb 2026

The Structure of the Fall

38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025

Joshua & the Holy Land

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

A Persian Parody

(See all)

past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

21.6 — July/August 2008

Harboring Homeschoolers

24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011

Freed Science

26.3 — May/June 2013

A Doubting Thomas

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

16.1 — January/February 2003

Man Is a Wolf to Man

15.7 — September 2002

Disaster Canada

15.9 — November 2002

The Comforting Doctrine of Hell

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

15.6 — July/August 2002

Not So Cheap

17.10 — December 2004

The Holiness of Unknowing

13.10 — December 2000

Holy Things

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991

Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures

An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.

23.5 — September/October 2010

Civilization in the Balance

An Interview with Michael Nazir-Ali

14.4 — May 2001

Latvia Revived

Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia

(See all)

book reviews

38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025

Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley

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

38.5 — Sept/Oct, 2025

The Scope of the Pope
Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848–2023 by John M. Rist
A review by William J. Tighe

38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025

Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
A review by Charles Carman

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