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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
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)
33.4—July/August 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
21.6—July/August 2008
Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason by Samuel Gregg
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
18.2—March 2005
On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility by Graeme Hunter
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
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38.3 — May/Jun 2025
on books for children
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As It Is Written . . .
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
18.8 — October 2005
19.9 — November 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
21.10 — December 2008
19.3 — April 2006
17.10 — December 2004
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.6 — November/December 2010
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Oliver O'Donovan's Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.5 — June 2003
15.6 — July/August 2002
17.7 — September 2004
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
7.4 — Fall 1994
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Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
14.4 — May 2001
Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
book reviews
35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
A Pastor & a Poet
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms by Malcolm Guite
A review by Thomas Banks
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
35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
Revelatory Science
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
A review by Neil English
35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
A Retrieval
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
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