september / october

Beyond Belief

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Beyond Belief

Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson

 Compelling Art

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Compelling Art

In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay

Very Religious

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

“Very Religious”

How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson

Adagio for Joseph

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Adagio for Joseph

Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man

Contradictory Man

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Contradictory Man

The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos

conference videos (see all)

America After Christianity

September 27, 2024

Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment

—John Daniel Davidson

September 28, 2024

The Urgency of Wonder

—Rod Dreher

September 26, 2024

Principles for Living in the Negative World

—Aaron Renn

from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)

32.3—May/June 2019

Theodicies & Messy Desks

on the Infinite Problem of Goods & Evil by Hugh Hunter

32.5—September/October 2019

Looking for Jacobs

Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter

from the archives on culture (292 articles)

32.6—November/December 2019

Listening Up

Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers by Anthony Esolen

31.6—November/December 2018

Virtue Gone Mad

Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley

34.1—January/February 2021

Fighting for Love

What the World Needs Now It Hardly Knows by Anthony Esolen

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Hymns of Creation

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

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From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

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A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

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First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Reading About the Holocaust

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Vanity & the Work of the Cobbler

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

A Persian Parody

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

Second Thoughts on Saul

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

All Their Cosmos

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past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)

18.10 — December 2005

Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society

18.7 — September 2005

Harvey Cox's The Secular City

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

15.10 — December 2002

How Much Does It Cost?

20.1 — January/February 2007

Harvard's End

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The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.10 — December 2002

Cubist Scripture

17.7 — September 2004

Literary Revelation

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

9.2 — Spring 1996

How They Love One Another

12.4 — July/August 1999

Capitalizing Tradition

17.2 — March 2004

Breaking Teeth

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Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

3.3 — Fall 1989

Hope in Haiti?

An Interview with Jean Bertrand Aristide

27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014

Activist for Life

An Interview with Joseph M. Scheidler

16.10 — December 2003

Violence & the Lamb Slain

An Interview with Rene Girard

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book reviews

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

Unreal Liberals
The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism by D. C. Schindler
A review by J. Douglas Johnson

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Retrieval
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
A review by John M. Vella

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

Points of Contact
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
A review by Louis Markos

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

One Big Phony War
Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World by David Hutchings and James C. Ungureanu
A review by Max Longley

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