Bruce Blaustein, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Read “A Good Husband: What Does That Mean?,” a courageous talk given by consultant Jeffrey Carduner at an Aesthetic Realism public seminar. He describes what he learned and what all men need to know in order to be the husbands they hope to be! Mr. Carduner writes: It was… Read more

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: This new issue of The Right Of answers questions crucial in the life of every person. For instance: How can we be kind—really, intelligently, accurately kind? And, What is the great interference within ourselves to this accurate kindness? You’ll also learn why criticism—the real thing, the kind thing—is necessary… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of TRO will cause big emotion and new perception in a reader. It is about what beauty is. And it’s about the central fight in every human being—something people all over the world need tremendously to understand. You’ll learn (among other things) what the most important question in… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of TRO is one of the most authentically hopeful things you’ll ever read—and it’s so needed now! It’s about what it means to have the kind of emotions we truly want—emotions that are at once big and accurate—and how art is a crucial guide to having them. To learn… Read more

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: How should we see a world that has great beauty and good, but also evil and ugliness? There is no more important question for everyone’s life, and it’s what this issue of The Right Of deals with magnificently. You’ll learn why art, even when it’s about something unlikable,… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: As important as anything in our lives, and for America today, is the subject of this magnificent issue of TRO, titled “Emotion and Sentences.”  What do sentences—thought, said, or written down, even in an email or text—have to do with how we hope to, need to, feel? You’ll see… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: There’s no subject more urgent or deeper than that of this new issue of TRO. “What Kind of Emotion?” tells what great emotion is, and why we want to have it—yet why we also can be against having it. The art emotion is described, and its big, central meaning… Read more

Matthew D’Amico, Aesthetic Realism associate, says: A work I care for greatly is Eli Siegel’s “36 Things about America: An Arithmetical Assemblage of Notations on the Persisting,” of 1961. In it, he shows through wonderful imagination and historical facts that there are things in our country that endure, that are real and can be cherished.… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “What All Art Has—& Our Everyday Lives” is this year’s first issue of TRO. It tells what art is, and why it matters! Through a landmark essay and moving poem by Eli Siegel, and a clear, thrilling commentary by Ellen Reiss, you’ll learn that all art 1) is about you and everyone,… Read more

John Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant and former Tri-State urban and regional planner, writes: I have long been interested in New York City—its 400-year history, its people, buildings, its geology, transportation, and waterways. When I heard Eli Siegel’s lecture New York Begins Poetically, my eyes opened to the most important means of understanding the city I’ve… Read more