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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)
33.4—July/August 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
32.5—September/October 2019
Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
33.1—January/February 2020
Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?
The Politicization of Pediatrics in America by Alexander F. C. Webster
19.4—May 2006
The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides by Howard P. Kainz
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
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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)
19.2 — March 2006
19.9 — November 2006
18.9 — November 2005
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
21.4 — May 2008
21.6 — July/August 2008
14.10 — December 2001
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.3 — May/Jun 2012
24.1 — January/February 2011
James Turner's Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.3 — April 2003
16.2 — March 2003
15.7 — September 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
15.5 — June 2002
9.3 — Summer 1996
11.4 — July/August 1998
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
26.3 — May/June 2013
Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion
4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991
Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures
An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.
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
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
Total Immersion
Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death by Peter J. Leithart
A review by Joshua Pauling
35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
A Promising Dialogue
Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective edited by Bradley Nassif and Tim Grass
A review by Philip LeMasters
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
One Big Phony War
Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World by David Hutchings and James C. Ungureanu
A review by Max Longley
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