november / december

The Priest & the Magician

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

The Priest & the Magician

The Choice Between Contemplation & Control of Nature by Nicholas E. Ziegenhagen

Making the Best of Dystopia

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

Making the Best of Dystopia

St. Antony’s Guide to Resisting the Transhumanist Temptation by C. R. Wiley

The Riddles of God

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

The Riddles of God

Rebecca Sicree on Hunting the Hidden Things of Christmas

Prodigious Adolescence

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

Prodigious Adolescence

Reclaiming the Normal Path to Mature Adulthood by Anthony Esolen

The Trinitarian Factor

38:6 — nov/dec 2025

The Trinitarian Factor

Joshua Steely on the Key to Cultural Recovery

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

33.4—July/August 2020

Pondering Evil

on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard

from the archives on culture (292 articles)

32.4—July/August 2019

Malaise in Malaysia

Will Islamicization Become Its New Future by Peter Riddell

18.2—March 2005

Long Shadows of Eden

On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility by Graeme Hunter

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

38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025

Four Feasts

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Hymns of Creation

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

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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

(See all)

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

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025

Joshua & the Holy Land

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

A Persian Parody

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

Second Thoughts on Saul

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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

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

14.8 — October 2001

The Ghost in My Machine

25.4 — July/August 2012

Out from the Ether

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Contours of Culture

by Ken Myers

on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)

23.1 — January/February 2010

Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences

22.7 — September/October 2009

Jacques Barzun's The Use and Abuse of Art

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The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.4 — May 2002

Flying High at Trinity

15.3 — April 2002

The Ring of Terror

15.10 — December 2002

Cubist Scripture

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

14.2 — March 2001

Bearing Virtue

17.1 — January/February 2004

Earthly Cares

14.3 — April 2001

The Ever-Changing Scandal

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Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

12.2 — March/April 1999

A Novelist Looks at Faith & Fiction

An Interview with Susan Howatch

28.5 — Sept/Oct 2015

The Gospel Out of Egypt

Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church

15.6 — July/August 2002

Out on a Limb in Norway

An Interview with Norwegian Dissident Roald Flemestad

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book reviews

38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025

Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
A review by Charles Carman

38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025

Our One Faith
Light from Light: A Theological Reflection on the Nicene Creed by Robert Barron
A review by Mike Schramm

38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025

The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
A review by Allan C. Carlson

38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025

Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley

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