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editorials

Bruised Reeds

The Shepherd’s Voice in an Age of Protest
by Anthony Esolen



quodlibet

S. M. Hutchens Stepping Down

by J. Douglas Johnson

Less Is More

by Donald T. Williams

Suicide by Liberalism

by J. Douglas Johnson

Unclearly Woke

by S. M. Hutchens

Limited Government Biblically Speaking

by Donald T. Williams

The Amish Vote

by J. Douglas Johnson

columns

Mortal Remains

Dreams of Gerontius

by S. M. Hutchens


Hear & Understand

Duruflé & the Inebriation of the Spirit

by Christopher Hoyt


First Books

North Africa—Fiction

by Kathie Johnson


Illuminations

Building & Unbuilding

by Anthony Esolen


A Thousand Words

The Chalice of Manuel Kantakouzenos

by Mary Elizabeth Podles


As It Is Written...

David & the Giant

by Patrick Henry Reardon



39.3—May/Jun 2026

features

Downward Nobility

Christian Love vs. Modern Humanitarianism
by Matthew B. Crawford


A Word on Humanitarianism

A Sidebar to Downward Nobility by Matthew B. Crawford
by J. Douglas Johnson


Piety, Place & Gratitude

Where Our Affections & Civilization Are Cultivated
by Mark T. Mitchell


A National Apostasy

England's Servile Church & Dechristianization
by John R. Stephenson


Scripture Plainly Laid

Making the New Cambridge Paragraph Bible
by David Norton


views

Retro Universe

Dante Hosseini on the Older Adopted Image of C. S. Lewis

The Queer Case of Emily Dickinson

Katherine Dalton on the Modern Makeover of the Belle of Amherst

Taming the Bear

N. E. Ziegenhagen on the Safe Practice of Sham Religion

book reviews

Nearly Persuaded

Taking Religion Seriously by Charles Murray
reviewed by Russell T. Warne


commonplaces

Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.

departments

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