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38:5 — sept/oct 2025
Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson
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Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man
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The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)
33.4—July/August 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
25.6—Nov/Dec 2012
The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
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18.2—March 2005
On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility by Graeme Hunter
31.6—November/December 2018
Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
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38.3 — May/Jun 2025
on books for children
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
19.3 — April 2006
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The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
19.7 — September 2006
16.2 — March 2003
20.1 — January/February 2007
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.5 — Sept/Oct 2011
26.6 — Nov/Dec 2013
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
24.1 — January/February 2011
James Turner's Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.9 — November 2002
15.3 — April 2002
15.5 — June 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
9.2 — Spring 1996
8.2 — Spring 1995
16.4 — May 2003
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
17.6 — July/August 2004
An conversation with William A. Dembski, Phillip E. Johnson, Jed Macosko, Paul Nelson, Edward Sisson, Richard Weikart, and Jonathan Witt About the Past, Present & Future of Darwinism & Design
4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991
Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures
An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.
book reviews
35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
Revelatory Science
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
A review by Neil English
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
Points of Contact
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
A review by Louis Markos
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
edited with an introduction by George Weigel
A review by John M. Vella
35.1 — January/February, 2022
Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative
in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
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