september / october
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
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)
24.2—March/April 2011
Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
32.5—September/October 2019
Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
30.6—Nov/Dec 2017
Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen
22.3—April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
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on works of Christian art
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38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025
38.3 — May/Jun 2025
on books for children
38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025
38.3 — May/Jun 2025
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As It Is Written . . .
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38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
19.1 — January/February 2006
19.2 — March 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
14.4 — May 2001
26.3 — May/June 2013
23.2 — March/April 2010
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.1 — January/February 2011
James Turner's Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
26.6 — Nov/Dec 2013
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.10 — December 2002
15.9 — November 2002
15.3 — April 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
13.8 — October 2000
11.3 — May/June 1998
15.3 — April 2002
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
14.6 — July/August 2001
An Interview with Bob Davies of Exodus International
book reviews
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
What Is Memory For?
Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph T. Stuart
A review by James E. Person, Jr.
35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
A review by Thomas Banks
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 Tale Told by an Idiot
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare edited by Jan H. Blits
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