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editorials

Pride & Incorrigibility

How to Save the World from Itself
by Anthony Esolen



quodlibet

The Anatomy of Unity

by James M. Kushiner

Talking Poverty

by J. Douglas Johnson

Allowing for Failure

by Donald T. Williams

Priestly Interpretation

by S. M. Hutchens


anno domini

The Beheading of Thomas More

July 6, 1535
by J. Douglas Johnson


The Destruction of the Second Temple

August 2, AD 70
by James M. Kushiner


columns

Hear & Understand

Bach & Music as “Sounding Number”

by Christopher Hoyt


Illuminations

The Springs of Baptism

by Anthony Esolen


A Thousand Words

The Apse Mosaics of St. John Lateran

by Mary Elizabeth Podles


As It Is Written...

The Prayer of Eleazar

by Patrick Henry Reardon



39.4—Jul/Aug 2026

features

America’s Transcendent Tether

A Semiquincentennial Requiem
by Duane Litfin


Miracles of Completion

Why We Will Walk on Water
by Hans Boersma


Minority Report

Christian Freedom in the Contest with Secularism
by Douglas Farrow


views

Capital Suffering

Thomas Jay on Bearing Crosses We’d Rather Not

The Daedalus Delusion

Seth D. Mitchell on Foolish Faith in Technological Salvation

Digital Disincarnation

Ersun Augustinus Kayra on the Church Fathers vs. the Ghost in the Machine

Uncivil Liberties

Alexander T. Riley on the Hostility of Expressive Individualism

book reviews

The Liberal Apocalypse

Philip Pilkington's The Collapse of Global Liberalism and the Emergence of the Post-liberal World Order
reviewed by R. V. Young


commonplaces

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

departments

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