Rosemary Plumstead, Aesthetic Realism consultant with All For Education, teacher trainer, and NYC science teacher (retired), writes: All across America, school administrators and teachers are meeting instances of bullying and its devastating effects on the lives of young people. The National Education Association estimates that 160,000 children “miss school every day due to fear of… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of The Right Of is a magnificent showing of how we can learn from art to be more fully ourselves and more fully alive! You’ll be thrilled, for instance, to learn about the technique of novelists Charles Dickens and Henry James—how their art can have us see the people we… Read more

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Variety, richness, depth—that is what every person deeply wants to feel the world has. But people have also felt smart (though pained) thinking that what surrounds them is not worthy of their attention and emotion. As the latest issue of The Right Of shows, Aesthetic Realism explains those… Read more

Faith K. Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with her husband, John Stern. She says: When I was growing up in Brooklyn, every summer our family went to Brighton Beach, along with thousands of other people, to relax and have a good time. Yet as I looked at those men and women,… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Reading “Contempt and Beauty,” this new issue of TRO, is a thrilling and deep experience. It’s about what’s best and worst in humanity (including oneself). It’s about what art really is and why that matters. And it has some of the most important evidence for why this world can… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: If you want to read something that will give you solid hope about America, humanity, and yourself; if you want to understand what interferes with people’s judgments, and also what the deepest, most beautiful desire of every person is; if you want to read something that is simultaneously scholarly… Read more

Steven Weiner, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: When I first read Eli Siegel’s essay about Hawthorne’s short story “The Man of Adamant,” I felt very related to Richard Digby, the title character, who was driven to separate himself from people and be cold to the world. Though I was just a young man at the time,… Read more

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: At this very troubled time in our country, there is nothing more necessary for people to know than what the new issue of The Right Of explains: what contempt is, and how contempt is the cause of injustice in America right now. That includes the horrible injustice of racism, and… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: In “The Understanding of Anger & Contempt” is the means to make sense of, and therefore stop, something that is distressing and terrifying Americans now: the horrendous mass shootings. You’ll learn about contempt, what it really is, and its effect—including in our everyday lives. You’ll read a remarkable article… Read more

Donita Ellison, art educator and sculptor, writes: I grew up in the Midwest and now live in New York City, and I once felt that I couldn’t care for what I saw as “nature” and love the city too. That changed when I read Martha Baird’s poem “Man and Nature in New York and Kansas.”… Read more