Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Tomorrow a woman will marry feeling that the man she’s chosen has shown her the adoration she’s longed for, and she wants—and expects—that that adoration will continue. But is being adored what a woman should be going for at all? Or is something else, something completely different, what a… Read more

John Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with his wife, Faith Stern. He writes: The subject of stuttering continues to trouble people. What is its cause? Eli Siegel, philosopher and critic, understood the human mind and the central fight in everyone—which in some people may take the form of stuttering. The definitive… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Space and Matter: along with being physical realities, do these have to do with ethics? Does the way we think about space and matter have to do with whether we’ll like ourselves or not? Can poetry—including the poetry of Shakespeare—show us something important about these big opposites in our… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What’s the biggest fight going on in all of us? How is it dramatically illustrated by an important poet? And, as ugly male behavior toward women is being described in the news—what’s the best way to look on it, make sense of it, use that information? Read “Contempt or… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “Kindness in Marriage—What Does It Really Mean?” This is a matter affecting every wife, and the deep and exciting answer will be presented at the Understanding Marriage! class, on Saturday morning, December 9th, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM. The class is open to all women. Women have wanted to be kind,… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: How we express ourselves is a cause of great confusion to people in every aspect of our lives. What stops us from expressing ourselves as we deeply hope to? What would make us proud of our expression? That’s what Aesthetic Realism consultant Marcia Rackow… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Is there a battle we don’t know about that is going on in us all the time? Can we have a determination that’s beautiful—and a very different kind of determination that weakens us? For the answers—tremendously hopeful—to these questions, read “The Thing in Us We Need Most… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Are we all in a conflict every day, one we need to understand in order to be happy, to like ourselves?  Answers—needed urgently by every person in America now—about what that conflict is and how it can be resolved, are here, including, I’m proud to say, in an important… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: A wife can feel a big difference between what engages her outside her home—such as education, work, perhaps political activity, friends—and being in the kitchen or bedroom with her husband, or choosing new drapes for the living room. Very often she’s felt her home is cozier than the large,… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What does a poem do that every person wants to do? How can the art of poetry—and an important poet of the 19th century, James Thomson—be a means of our knowing ourselves? Read “What Don’t We Know about Ourselves?,” the great, stirring new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism… Read more