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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
25.6—Nov/Dec 2012
The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
31.6—November/December 2018
Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
current columns
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)
19.2 — March 2006
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The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011
15.8 — October 2002
25.2 — March/April 2012
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.6 — November/December 2010
24.2 — March/April 2011
Colin Gunton's Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology
26.1 — Jan/Feb 2013
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.9 — November 2002
15.7 — September 2002
15.8 — October 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
10.3 — Summer 1997
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9.3 — Summer 1996
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
13.6 — July/August 2000
Life as an Orthodox Churchman in the Church of Sweden: An interview with Dag Sandahl
book reviews
35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
Unreal Liberals
The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism by D. C. Schindler
A review by J. Douglas Johnson
35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
A Tale Told by an Idiot
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare edited by Jan H. Blits
A review by R. V. Young
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
35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
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