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Restoring Masculinity Outside the Feminist Frame by Mark Perkins
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Sexual Functionalism & Promiscuous Habits in Tolstoy's The Devil by Michial Farmer
39:1 — jan/feb 2026
Daring to Seek Meaning & Magnificence by Anthony Esolen
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The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
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33.1—January/February 2020
Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?
The Politicization of Pediatrics in America by Alexander F. C. Webster
32.6—November/December 2019
Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers by Anthony Esolen
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
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As It Is Written . . .
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
21.9 — November 2008
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
18.9 — November 2005
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
25.4 — July/August 2012
18.8 — October 2005
15.8 — October 2002
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.5 — September/October 2010
22.7 — September/October 2009
24.2 — March/April 2011
Colin Gunton's Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.4 — May 2002
15.7 — September 2002
17.7 — September 2004
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
14.5 — June 2001
14.1 — January/February 2001
9.3 — Summer 1996
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
22.8 — November/December 2009
An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden
4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991
Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures
An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.
book reviews
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
38.6 — 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
38.3 — May/Jun, 2025
Down But Not Out
Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream by Timothy S. Goeglein
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
Closing Argument
What Is Christianity? The Last Writings of Benedict XVI
A review by John R. Stephenson
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