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Restoring Masculinity Outside the Feminist Frame by Mark Perkins
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The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
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32.6—November/December 2019
Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers by Anthony Esolen
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
29.3—May/June 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ 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 . . .
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
38.3 — May/Jun 2025
19.2 — March 2006
19.9 — November 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
16.1 — January/February 2003
17.8 — October 2004
18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.1 — January/February 2010
24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011
A. J. Conyers's The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
26.4 — July/August 2013
Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.7 — September 2002
16.5 — June 2003
15.4 — May 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
15.4 — May 2002
13.2 — March 2000
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
book reviews
38.4 — Jul/Aug, 2025
Art & Human Ends
Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts by Daniel McInerny
A review by Louise McCray
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley
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
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
Closing Argument
What Is Christianity? The Last Writings of Benedict XVI
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