september/october

Young Folly & Elder Hope

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

Young Folly & Elder Hope

A Battle Plan for Peace While Growing Old
by Anthony Esolen

Heresy of Isolation

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

AI: A Theological Response

Misgivings of a Recovering Technologist
by Bernard Peter Robichau

How Law Lost Its Way

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

How Law Lost Its Way

An Abandoned Ruling Principle & How to Get It Back
by Adam J. MacLeod

Young Folly & Elder Hope

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

Great & Wonderful Days

The Death of Conservatism & the Negative World
by J. Douglas Johnson

We Dare Not Despair

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

We Dare Not Despair

Clinton Collister on Repenting from the Vice of Declinism

conference videos (see all)

Chris Wiley at the Touchstone Conference

October 12, 2018

Make Men Pious Again

—C. R. Wiley

October 14, 2022

The Politics of Nothingness

—Michael Hanby

from the archives on imagination (40 articles)

11.5—September/October 1998

Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp

An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott

18.4—May 2005

Of Weeds & Fairy Tales

The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian

from the archives on family (108 articles)

31.5—September/October 2018

Errands into the Moral Wilderness

Forms of Christian Family Witness & Renewal by Allan C. Carlson

21.8—October 2008

Weed Free

on Tending a Child’s Garden of Influences by John Thompson

33.3—May/June 2020

Maternity as Theophany

Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy by Laura S. Jansson by Agnes R. Howard

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Cool of the Evening

37.3 — May/June 2024

Praying for Gratitude

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From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

37.4 — Jul/Aug 2024

A Calm Without a Storm

37.3 — May/June 2024

The Liedermeister & the Church

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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

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

37.3 — May/June 2024

More on the Far East

37.1 — Jan/Feb 2024

Far Eastern Lands

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Insidious Winsomeness

37.4 — Jul/Aug 2024

Seeing the Remnant

37.3 — May/June 2024

Fr. Robinson & Mere Anglicanism

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Scriptures’ Greek Nuance

37.4 — Jul/Aug 2024

The Library Left Behind

37.3 — May/June 2024

The Audacious Tamar

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past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

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

18.8 — October 2005

Jack Kerouac's On the Road

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

15.10 — December 2002

How Much Does It Cost?

26.3 — May/June 2013

A Doubting Thomas

20.2 — March 2007

Prime Removers

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Contours of Culture

by Ken Myers

on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)

22.7 — September/October 2009

Jacques Barzun's The Use and Abuse of Art

23.1 — January/February 2010

Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences

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The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.4 — May 2002

Flying High at Trinity

15.6 — July/August 2002

Love for the Fatherland

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

13.4 — May 2000

Ecclesiastical Math

17.2 — March 2004

Breaking Teeth

11.2 — March/April 1998

Saying You’re Sorry

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Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

12.6 — November/December 1999

Backyard Apologetics

An Interview with Charles Colson

28.5 — Sept/Oct 2015

The Gospel Out of Egypt

Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

A Faithful Knowledge

A Conversation with Stephen C. Meyer

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book reviews

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
A review by Max Longley

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

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Minority Warning
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
A review by Allan C. Carlson

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Retrieval
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
A review by John M. Vella

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