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

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

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

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

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

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: People have loved works of art, and have returned to look at paintings again and again.  But they haven’t known that all art is about themselves too, their own lives.  And people haven’t seen that what makes for the beauty in art is ethical: that art has answers to the most… Read more

Derek Mali, Aesthetic Realism consultant and actor, writes: When I first read Eli Siegel’s essay “The Ordinary Doom,” I was astounded—I felt, “This describes me!” Though I hadn’t met him, I felt he wrote the essay with me in mind. In it, Mr. Siegel explains the loneliness people take for granted—that they walk around with… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The human self in all its mystery–who are we? what are we going for?: that’s what “The Self—Always and Now” is about.  In it there is such a surprising, exciting looking at what and who a person is, with our depth and complexity, and our emotions, both good and… Read more

Nancy Huntting , Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of The Right Of is about a hugely important matter: art is a guide to justice in this world. Through “A Literary Device—& Everyone’s Own Self” you will see people of the past and now with greater respect, including yourself. You will learn how an artistic technique represents… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: In this new issue of The Right Of, something tremendous in the life of everyone is explained as only Aesthetic Realism has been able to explain it: how we can honestly like ourselves. And you will see: things that very much trouble us about ourselves today have… Read more