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37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
Reflections from an Ancient & Beleaguered Nation
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China by Glen L. Thompson
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
on the Return of a Diabolical & Meaningless Project
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
Timber Framing, Poetic Knowledge & the Curse of Sin
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
The Rich Legacy of My Christian Father’s Jewish Wisdom
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
on Wokeism & What Scheler Got Right About Nietzsche’s Insight
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
When Kings Take Counsel Together
The World May Not Rule Itself Without Christ
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World Like the Early Church
by Stephen O. Presley
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
The Crisis of Authority in the Fine Arts
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
on Repenting from the Vice of Declinism
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
Misgivings of a Recovering Technologist
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
on Guiding Our Desires Toward the Wonders of Man as Creature
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
Darwin’s Bluff: The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished by Robert F. Shedinger
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us by Carrie Gress
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
The Creator’s Gift of Union in a World Fallen Apart
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
We Must Restore Wasted Humanity
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
Aaron Renn’s Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
John Daniel Davidson’s Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
Beware Ecclesial Scandals Left & Right
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
Modern Mental Health Ideology vs. Christianity
37.3—May/June, 2024
on Divine Gifts & Generous Hands
37.3—May/June, 2024
Why the Christian Life Threatens Modern “Progress”
37.3—May/June, 2024
on Identity Politics (A Philosophical Primer)
37.3—May/June, 2024
Total Freedom, Total Servility
Digital Culture’s Transformation of Authority
37.3—May/June, 2024
The Biggest Identity Theft Ever
37.3—May/June, 2024
on the Beauty of Sexism
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
A Panel Discussion with Robert P. George, David Dockery, Patrick Henry Reardon & Anthony Esolen
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
Modern Post-Conversion Identity in the Light of Augustine’s Example
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
on David Marshall’s Take on Chinese Religion & Tradition
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
Christian Tradition Is a Subversive Witness Against Modern Funeral Practices
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
On Lightning Clarity at a Divinity School
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
A Spiritual Exploration of AI
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
on Spurning the Idol of Niceness
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
The Tucker Carlson Episode & the Teaching of Jesus
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
on Scottish Gaelic & the End of All Good Things
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Notes Toward the Restitution of Christian Culture
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Why I Purchased These Twenty Books for a Newlywed
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
Masculine Christianity R.I.P.?
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
Antonín Dvořák's Mass in D Major
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
on the Enemies of Humanae Vitae Meeting Again
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
“His Eye Is on the Sparrow”
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
A Positively Medieval Hierarchy
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
on a New Take on Romans 1 Well Worth Skipping
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
Critical Theories & the Rule of Law
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
Revolutionaries to the Romantics: Drop Dead
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
We Have No Right, Thank God
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Necessary Failure of Inclusive-Language Translations
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
on E-Prime
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Metaverse Delusions vs. the Reality of Body & Soul
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
on How It & Easy Divorce Made “Gay Marriage” Inevitable
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Encouragement for Christians Preparing for the End
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Our Godless Narratives Are Pure Folly
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
The Failure & Confusions of a More Accommodating Faith
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
Christian Fidelity vs. the Sterile Conformity of the State
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
Worship, Education & the Occult Dangers of the Electronic Age
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
Ko-Ko, the Chief Dufflepud & Their Kin
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
The Chosen's Less-than-Awesome Cinematic Christ
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism by D. C. Schindler
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
The Times Require Mercy for the Fight
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
On the Magnificat
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
on the Emerging Totalitarianism of the New Biopolitics
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Sinful Atmospherics in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
on Fatigued Christians Deciding to Engage the Culture
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
on Integralism's Problems & the Priority of Evangelization
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
on Choosing Gratuitous Nature over Modern Pragmatism
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
Are Our Souls Still "Tenable" After Covid?
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
Authority & Obedience in Our Stories
35.1—January/February, 2022
A Plagiarized Genesis Is the Source for a Secular Utopia
35.1—January/February, 2022
Can We Strengthen Our Congregations Before It's Too Late?
35.1—January/February, 2022
E. M. Forster's Prophetic View into Machine Culture
35.1—January/February, 2022
on the Subversive Tyranny of a Month of Pride
35.1—January/February, 2022
on the Disrespect of Human Composting
35.1—January/February, 2022
on a Prayer for Hatred & the Final Solution
35.1—January/February, 2022
on the Church's Failure in the Pandemic as Symptomatic
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
on Refusing a Pinch of Incense to Imperial Progressivism
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
Hungarians Ban LGBT Indoctrination, Defying the EU
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
The Days of Avoiding Giving Offense Are Over
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
on Faërian Drama & the End of Enchantment
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
Letters of the St. Nicholas League
When Once 100,000 Children Wrote the Best Magazine That Ever Was
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
on the Doctrine of God & Expressive Individualism
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
It's Not What Some Think It Should Be
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
The Case for Authentic Christian Higher Education
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
Russell Moore: Vaya con Dios
34.4—July/August, 2021
Touchstone & the "Devout" Friends of Abortion
34.4—July/August, 2021
To Strut & Fret an Hour Upon the Stage
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
34.4—July/August, 2021
on an Impregnable Darkness That Opens a Door
34.4—July/August, 2021
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
34.3—May/June, 2021
34.3—May/June, 2021
Race, Religion & Reconciliation
Reflections on the Present American Moment
34.2—March/April, 2021
on Families as the Province of Liberty
34.2—March/April, 2021
on the Martyrdom of Franz Jäggerstätter
34.1—January/February, 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher
34.1—January/February, 2021
on the Promiscuous Use of the Word "Values"
34.1—January/February, 2021
34.1—January/February, 2021
A Strange but Illuminating Comparison
34.1—January/February, 2021
What the World Needs Now It Hardly Knows
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
on the Normal Necessity of Human Contact
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
Why We No Longer But Still Could Have Beautiful Things
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
on One Word That Explains the Current Delusions
33.4—July/August, 2020
A Plan to Show Students a Pro-life Film Exposes Academic Infidelity
33.4—July/August, 2020
Clear Out the Rubble & Rebuild!
33.4—July/August, 2020
Our Views on the President Are Not Crucial
33.3—May/June, 2020
on the Wisdom of the Good Doctor Edmund Pellegrino
33.3—May/June, 2020
Sin Covers a Multitude of Loves
33.3—May/June, 2020
Human & Divine Societies Require Careful Thought & Discourse
33.2—March/April, 2020
—from the 2019 Touchstone Conference
33.2—March/April, 2020
33.2—March/April, 2020
Encounters with Faith & Forgiveness in Communities of Faith
33.2—March/April, 2020
on How Bodily Resurrection Informs Social Justice
33.2—March/April, 2020
on Neta, Who Lived to Tell the Tale of Endurance
33.2—March/April, 2020
33.1—January/February, 2020
on Generational Spacing & Familial Inertia
33.1—January/February, 2020
Speaking Truth About the Sexes Is Not Optional
33.1—January/February, 2020
Pagans & Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac by Steven D. Smith
33.1—January/February, 2020
Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?
The Politicization of Pediatrics in America
32.6—November/December, 2019
Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers
32.5—September/October, 2019
on When Christians Can't Compromise
32.5—September/October, 2019
Minimalism Is Not the New Christian Approach to Managing Possessions
32.5—September/October, 2019
32.5—September/October, 2019
The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World by Vigen Guroian
32.5—September/October, 2019
on the Inhuman Transformation of Transgenderism
32.5—September/October, 2019
A First Step in Cultural Salvation
32.5—September/October, 2019
Will Growing Global Pushback on Sexuality Make Progressives Give Up & Leave?
32.4—July/August, 2019
The Two Faces of Modern Misandry
2018 Conference Talk
32.4—July/August, 2019
32.4—July/August, 2019
Today's Culture Wars Are Both Ancient & Modern
32.4—July/August, 2019
Will Islamicization Become Its New Future
32.4—July/August, 2019
Says, Marie Kondo Does Not Spark My Joy
32.3—May/June, 2019
The Nature of a Man Is What He Is For
32.3—May/June, 2019
Mere Conservatism Is Not Christian
32.3—May/June, 2019
32.3—May/June, 2019
Why It's in Bad Shape & How to Recover It
32.3—May/June, 2019
32.2—March/April, 2019
Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West, Volume II by Paul Gosselin
32.2—March/April, 2019
on the Pragmatism That Inhibits Our Spiritual Life
32.2—March/April, 2019
Reality Shows, Even in a Popular TV Series
32.2—March/April, 2019
Why Tolkien's Middle-earth Table Manners Matter Today
32.2—March/April, 2019
on Preserving Physical & Spiritual Nourishment
32.1—January/February, 2019
Answers Secular & Religious
31.6—November/December, 2018
The Morals of the Story: Good News About a Good God
by David and Marybeth Baggett
31.6—November/December, 2018
on the Church's Response to the Anti-marriage Tide
31.6—November/December, 2018
31.6—November/December, 2018
France's Reign of Terror & the Witness of the Church Militant
31.6—November/December, 2018
Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source
31.5—September/October, 2018
Public Education & the Secular Idols Replacing God
31.5—September/October, 2018
The Cities of Man & the Dwelling Place of the Lord
31.5—September/October, 2018
31.4—July/August, 2018
The Difficulty of Apologetics for Dead Souls in the Real World
31.4—July/August, 2018
31.4—July/August, 2018
31.4—July/August, 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
31.4—July/August, 2018
Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
31.3—May/June, 2018
on Journalism as an Exercise of the Moral Imagination
31.2—March/April, 2018
The Transmission of Christianity Is Not a New Task
31.2—March/April, 2018
31.2—March/April, 2018
How Best to Face the Total War of the Anti-Culture
31.1—January/February, 2018
Consumer Man versus Working Man: Thoughts on the Value of Work
31.1—January/February, 2018
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Neither Dostoevsky nor Prince Myshkin Makes the Case
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
on Individualism in America & Its Cure
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Charles Williams's Prophetic Warning About the Temptations of Technology
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
The Senior Editors & the Presidency
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
Despair, Imagination & the Re-enchantment of the World
30.3—May/June, 2017
Christian Formation in Our Apocalyptic Age
30.2—March/April, 2017
Our Path to Holiness Runs Straight Through Calvary
30.2—March/April, 2017
Soldiers of Christ & the Mixed Messages They Receive
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
Keep Calm, Carry On, Even If It Is "Satan's Hour"
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
on Captain Kirk, Contraception & Christian Tradition
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
Where Young Christian Families Are Finding New Roots
29.5—Sept/Oct, 2016
The Modern Versions Are Neither Feminine nor Heroic
29.3—May/June, 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
on Marriage, Moral Corruption & the Christian Duty of Witness
28.6—Nov/Dec, 2015
The Evangelization of Society Can Benefit from the Spiritual Vision of Christopher Dawson
28.6—Nov/Dec, 2015
History, Theology & Mythmaking from a Deadly Encounter
28.6—Nov/Dec, 2015
Advent Teufel and Llama Cookies
on Preparing for Christmas in a Shipwrecked Culture
28.3—May/June, 2015
on the Formation of Conscience for Good or Ill
28.1—January/February, 2015
on Education, Handheld Devices & A Young Girl Reading
27.6—Nov/Dec, 2014
Culture and the Death of God
by Terry Eagleton
26.4—July/August, 2013
on a So-Called Truce in the War Against Marriage
26.4—July/August, 2013
Hilton Kramer's Life of Cultural Discernment Meant Speaking Truth to Art
26.3—May/June, 2013
Endorsement and Academic Freedom
Debates About Commencement Speakers & Student Groups Reveal a Double Standard
26.3—May/June, 2013
on the Eyes of the Heart & the Glory of God
26.3—May/June, 2013
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor
26.3—May/June, 2013
on Worshiping the Lord Without Lying About the Faith
26.3—May/June, 2013
on G. K. Chesterton & the Art of Casual Sketching
26.3—May/June, 2013
on the Un-humanitarian Charity of Martin de Porres
26.1—Jan/Feb, 2013
Manly Chastity, Hedonism & the Law of Non-contradiction
25.6—Nov/Dec, 2012
The Story of One Culture's Spiritual Rise from the Literal Ashes
25.4—July/August, 2012
on an Unnoticed Transformation of the Cause of Disease
25.3—May/Jun, 2012
Prison Fellowship Founder Charles Colson's Final Mission for Christian Faith & Culture
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
Liberty, Conscience & Autonomy
How the Culture War of the Roaring Twenties Set the Stage for Today’s Catholic & Evangelical Alliance
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
A Critical Memoir of Thomas Merton at Gethsemani Abbey
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
On Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture
24.4—July/August, 2011
The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family
24.1—January/February, 2011
Ruminations on the Monstrous Envy of the Soul-Devouring State
23.5—September/October, 2010
An Interview with Michael Nazir-Ali
23.2—March/April, 2010
on Maturity for a Rising Generation
23.2—March/April, 2010
Singing and the Imagination of Devotion: Vocal Aesthetics in Early English Protestant Culture by Susan Tara Brown
23.1—January/February, 2010
on the Foundational Culture of the Dining Room
22.8—November/December, 2009
Social Sins Are Easily & Fashionably Confessed
22.5—June, 2009
The Life & Times of Anthony Comstock, Moral Crusader
22.5—June, 2009
Christ and Culture Revisited by D. A. Carson
22.4—May, 2009
on the Cultural Suicide of the Newly Enlightened
22.3—April, 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
21.10—December, 2008
Big Bailouts & Culture War Maneuvers You Can Expect
21.7—September, 2008
God and Money: The Moral Challenge of Our Capitalist Culture
by Charles McDaniel
21.6—July/August, 2008
Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason
21.6—July/August, 2008
on Finding Molehills to Conquer
21.2—March, 2008
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by David Michaelis
20.9—November, 2007
My Correct Views on Everything
by Leszek Kolakowski
20.8—October, 2007
on Why I Can’t Be Just Another Earthman
20.7—September, 2007
Paul Didn’t Build Bridges to Popular Culture
20.2—March, 2007
The Unnoticed Gift of Trickle-Down Decadence
19.9—November, 2006
on the Advantages of Having Children in a Foreign Land
19.8—October, 2006
on Transgressive Bohemians as Regressive Bobos
19.6—July/August, 2006
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
19.5—June, 2006
The Pope, the Cardinal, the Jesuit & the Evolving Debate About Origins
19.5—June, 2006
Men Who Are Willing to Lay Down Their Lives Are Truly Indispensable
19.4—May, 2006
The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides
19.3—April, 2006
America’s Largest Protestant Denomination & the Culture War
18.9—November, 2005
on Married Couples Who Won’t Have Children
18.8—October, 2005
on Why Pornography Is Not the Sin We Say It Is
18.3—April, 2005
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
18.2—March, 2005
On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility
18.1—January/February, 2005
on Telling People Who They Really Are
17.10—December, 2004
Divided Christians in Australia Are Engaged in a Culture War of Their Own
13.2—March, 2000
How Now Shall We Bear Witness?
After a Century of Retreat, Can Christians Now Engage the Culture?
13.4—May, 2000
on the Duty of Professionals
13.7—September, 2000
on American Pop Culture
13.8—October, 2000
on Christians & Popular Culture
14.1—January/February, 2001
14.1—January/February, 2001
14.3—April, 2001
Notre Dame’s Culture of Death Conference
14.4—May, 2001
on the Errors of Determinism
14.4—May, 2001
on Abortion in the Real World
14.4—May, 2001
Bill Clinton Was Right! (About the Human Genome)
14.4—May, 2001
on “Shacking Up”
14.5—June, 2001
Life & Death After Christendom
The Moralization of Religion & the Culture of Death
14.5—June, 2001
Mary Tyler Moore’s Autograph & What I Did with It
on Stem Cell Research
14.7—September, 2001
The Death of Culture & the Culture of Death
15.3—April, 2002
Christianity and European Culture
edited by Gerald J. Russello
Dynamics of World History
by Christopher Dawson
15.3—April, 2002
on Redeeming the Culture
15.9—November, 2002
The Promising Effects of Christ on Other Cultures
16.1—January/February, 2003
on Children Born of Rape or Incest
16.5—June, 2003
The Austere Offices of Manhood
on the Labors of Christian Fathers
16.10—December, 2003
Vanity Fair’s Thanatos Syndrome
Malcolm Muggeridge, Modern Capitalism & the Culture of Death
15.2—March, 2002
Factory Farms & the Culture of Death
14.9—November, 2001
Lincoln's Historic Proclamation Appointing a National Day of Prayer & Fasting—A Sidebar to "The Essence & Power of Evil"
12.4—July/August, 1999
on Language, Faith & Culture
11.1—January/February, 1998
Passing on Christian Culture on the Verge of the Third Millennium
10.1—Winter, 1997
Christ & Culture: A Dilemma Reconsidered
A New Look at Culture, Christians & the State
9.2—Spring, 1996
The Ecumenical Orthodoxy of a Dominican
Scribe of the Kingdom: Essays on Theology and Culture by Aidan Nichols, O.P.
7.2—Spring, 1994
A Moral Redoubt in the Heartland
The Culture of the Plains States
6.1—Winter, 1993
Civilization Without Religion?
5.4—Fall, 1992
A Study of the Shaping of Western Culture by Alister E. McGrath
3.1—Winter, 1989
2.1—Fall, 1987
1.3—Summer, 1987
A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson, 1889–1970 by Christina Scott
1.2—Winter, 1987
Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture by Lesslie Newbigin
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