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39:2— mar/apr 2026
Progress & the Pursuit of Unhappiness by J. Douglas Johnson
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The Minstrel of Millennial Narcissism
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24.2—March/April 2011
Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
32.6—November/December 2019
An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson
from the archives on culture (301 articles)
29.3—May/June 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen
31.2—March/April 2018
The Transmission of Christianity Is Not a New Task by Nathanael Devlin
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From Heavenly Harmony
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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
18.10 — December 2005
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The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
20.10 — December 2007
19.7 — September 2006
22.8 — November/December 2009
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Oliver O'Donovan's Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
25.3 — May/Jun 2012
22.7 — September/October 2009
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.7 — September 2002
16.3 — April 2003
16.2 — March 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
13.7 — September 2000
8.2 — Spring 1995
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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
book reviews
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley
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
Latter-Day Paper Trail
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38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Divinely Detailed
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