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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
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Daring to Seek Meaning & Magnificence by Anthony Esolen
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33.4—July/August 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility by Graeme Hunter
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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37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024
on works of Christian art
39.1 — Jan/Feb 2026
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38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025
on books for children
39.1 — Jan/Feb 2026
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As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
39.1 — Jan/Feb 2026
38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
21.6 — July/August 2008
19.9 — November 2006
18.7 — September 2005
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
22.2 — March 2009
23.6 — November/December 2010
16.4 — May 2003
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.2 — March/April 2010
Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
22.6 — July/August 2009
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.5 — June 2002
16.5 — June 2003
15.6 — July/August 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
17.3 — April 2004
15.1 — January/February 2002
14.4 — May 2001
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
14.4 — May 2001
Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
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
Latter-Day Paper Trail
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet by John G. Turner
A review by Joseph Martin
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
38.6 — 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
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