Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new issue of TRO, “About Cynicism—& Its Beautiful Opponent,” explains in a thrilling way one of the toughest subjects. Is there any state of mind that’s keener, wiser, more powerful than cynicism? Yes, you’ll learn, including through a vivid account by a contemporary man. You’ll learn what cynicism comes… Read more

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: “Good Power or Bad—the Criterion” is about something gigantic in everyone’s life. What kind of power are we after, and is there a fight in us about that? Can we learn from art about the power we truly want? And the battle about power now taking place in our nation—what… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: In America and everywhere, there is confusion about how to see one’s family, and people very much hope to make sense of that big matter. “A Daughter, a Mother, & the World” shows beautifully, with depth and logic, how a daughter began to see her mother newly, with comprehension,… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “How Should We See the World?” describes the central fight in the human mind—and it explains, too, how this fight is dividing America right now. And in some of the greatest, most thrilling literary criticism you’ll ever read, learn how the poet John Keats was after what we ourselves… Read more

Michael Palmer, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: In his 1953 essay “Art as, Yes, Humility,” Eli Siegel explains something that people have ached to know: how to be genuinely proud of our lives. I once felt that to be proud, I had to impress people with a prestigious job in which I made a lot of… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: “Keats, America, & Aesthetic Realism” is thrillingly about opposites everyone is desperate to make sense of: the need to be definite, exact, and the need to be fair to the subtleties of things and people. It’s also about what we can learn from how an eminent… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Reading “Keats, Beauty, & Ourselves,” you’ll be thrilled as you learn the meaning of one of the great poems of the world, and what that poem has to do with our own lives in the 21st century. There is, here, a magnificent understanding of love, of what interferes with… Read more

Harvey Spears, photographer and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this article by John Stern, published in The Municipal Engineers Journal: What can we learn about ourselves from one of the most historic buildings in NYC? In his article “Grand Central Terminal: A Study in Beauty and Meaning,” John Stern, Tri-State Regional Planner (ret.) and Aesthetic… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Freedom is a word with a tremendous history and immediacy for America. What you’ll read about it in “Freedom & Justice: Aesthetic Opposites” is new. This is knowledge that can enable our nation today to be true to what’s best in America, and to what a family right now in Maine,… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: “Beauty Always & Right Now” is about something that art critics and others have tried for centuries to understand, and which Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by Eli Siegel, explains: what art is—what every instance of real art has in common. And you’ll see: Aesthetic Realism also… Read more