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

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This new issue of TRO is tremendously kind and urgent. In it you’ll learn how your personal hopes, desires, and confusions have to do with some of the biggest matters in human history and culture. The relation of art and science, of emotion and logic, is seen here in… Read more

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: In this issue of TRO you will learn something important and new about the relation and deep friendship of art and science. You will also learn about how large the desire was in a person to see the world exactly, imaginatively, and with full kindness. That… Read more

Lynette Abel, Aesthetic Realism associate, singer with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, writes: A matter that greatly concerns people every day is sincerity. Though we may not be aware of it, we look for sincerity both from ourselves and others, and cannot be truly satisfied with anything else. And yet, there has been much difficulty… Read more