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Progress & the Pursuit of Unhappiness by J. Douglas Johnson
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The Minstrel of Millennial Narcissism
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The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
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Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason by Samuel Gregg
from the archives on culture (301 articles)
29.3—May/June 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
18.2—March 2005
On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility by Graeme Hunter
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From Heavenly Harmony
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past columns
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Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025
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The Leading Edge
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22.2 — March 2009
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26.3 — May/June 2013
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014
24.2 — March/April 2011
Colin Gunton's Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.5 — June 2003
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
17.10 — December 2004
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Interviews
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14.4 — May 2001
Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
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Life as an Orthodox Churchman in the Church of Sweden: An interview with Dag Sandahl
book reviews
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
A review by Charles Carman
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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38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
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