Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The basis of “Emphasis, Art, & Ourselves” is some of the greatest seeing in human thought: the seeing by Eli Siegel that “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” Two of art’s opposites, and… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Great pleasure and education await the reader of “Knowledge—Excited and True.” You’ll learn about the best thing in humanity, in yourself—the desire to know—and also about what in oneself interferes with that best thing. And, as you read Eli Siegel’s powerful discussion of Charles Dickens, you will be experiencing… 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

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

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

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

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: At a time of tremendous worry—what needed knowledge is here, in “A Loving Conquest of Reality”! This new issue of TRO is greatly, authentically kind, as it is scientific, about a large source of distress in people: the conflict in us between knowledge and feeling, logic and emotion. Also,… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new TRO is a landmark in human thought. It’s about the question How are art and science related? You’ll learn that these two fields—though mainly seen as apart and opposed—are inextricably and beautifully akin. And you’ll learn why this fact is so hopeful for everyone’s life—how understanding it is… Read more