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March 30, 2022

Jeffrey Carduner

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

March 23, 2022

Gina Buffone works in the sustainable building field. She is Director of New Construction for a non-profit consulting company that focuses on affordable housing. She writes: What makes a rose beautiful? Why has the Acropolis continued to move people over the centuries? Why is the Mona Lisa considered one of the greatest works of art… Read more

March 16, 2022

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism Consultant

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

March 2, 2022

Steve Weiner, Aesthetic Realism associate

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

February 23, 2022

Sally Ross

Sally Ross, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Millions of Americans walk around every day, as I did when I was in college, feeling heavy, depressed, stuck—and wondering, “Will I ever get out of this?” In issue 1759 of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known is The Philosophy of Depression, a great lecture Eli Siegel… Read more

February 16, 2022

Jeffrey Carduner

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

February 2, 2022

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism Consultant

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

January 26, 2022

Matthew D’Amico, Aesthetic Realism associate, and political coordinator for a New York State labor union, 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… Read more

January 19, 2022

Steve Weiner, Aesthetic Realism associate

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: The important word freedom is so often used—and misused—in our nation today. But what does that longed-for thing, freedom, really mean, both in our own lives and for our very troubled country? “Freedom & Our Purposes” answers this question, logically and magnificently. You’ll gain new, vital knowledge about… Read more

January 5, 2022

Jeffrey Carduner

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

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