november / december

The Priest & the Magician

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

The Priest & the Magician

The Choice Between Contemplation & Control of Nature by Nicholas E. Ziegenhagen

Making the Best of Dystopia

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

Making the Best of Dystopia

St. Antony’s Guide to Resisting the Transhumanist Temptation by C. R. Wiley

The Riddles of God

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

The Riddles of God

Rebecca Sicree on Hunting the Hidden Things of Christmas

Prodigious Adolescence

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

Prodigious Adolescence

Reclaiming the Normal Path to Mature Adulthood by Anthony Esolen

The Trinitarian Factor

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

The Trinitarian Factor

Joshua Steely on the Key to Cultural Recovery

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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 (75 articles)

29.5—Sept/Oct 2016

The True Atheist Myth

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

16.4—May 2003

Common Sense

Chesterton & the Aristotelian Tradition by Patrick Henry Reardon

from the archives on culture (292 articles)

19.4—May 2006

Liberalism as Religion

The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides by Howard P. Kainz

33.1—January/February 2020

Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?

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

32.5—September/October 2019

Must Say No

on When Christians Can't Compromise by Joshua Steely

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025

Four Feasts

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Hymns of Creation

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

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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

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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

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Reading About the Holocaust

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Vanity & the Work of the Cobbler

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025

Joshua & the Holy Land

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A Persian Parody

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Second Thoughts on Saul

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past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

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

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Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society

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Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

15.8 — October 2002

Ethics in a Vacuum

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They Are A-Changin’

25.4 — July/August 2012

Out from the Ether

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The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.6 — July/August 2002

Love for the Fatherland

15.4 — May 2002

Flying High at Trinity

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

13.1 — January/February 2000

Waste of Time

17.7 — September 2004

Like a Virgin?

15.9 — November 2002

Uncompassionate Conservatism

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Interviews

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Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

16.10 — December 2003

Violence & the Lamb Slain

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12.5 — September/October 1999

The Catholic Angler

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37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

A Faithful Knowledge

A Conversation with Stephen C. Meyer

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book reviews

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

38.4 — 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

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

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