Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What does the subject of space have to do with our lives? Is learning about it an urgent matter—for both a person and an entire nation? A surprising, deeply educating, and satisfying pleasure awaits you as you read “Space, Walt Whitman, & Our Lives,” the great new issue of The Right of… Read more

Faith K. Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with her husband, John Stern. She says: Like women everywhere, I was very confused by my conflicting feelings, and often seemed tossed about from one emotion to the next, without seeing any relation between them. For instance, friends and family complained that I was… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “Ethics, Beauty, & the Civil War” has thrilling clarity about a crucial time in America’s history and its large meaning for our own time. And a contemporary American man writes with honesty (and humor) about a big fight in himself and everyone. Read this great, urgently needed new issue… Read more

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

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What can we learn about reality and ourselves from two poems, written centuries apart, about whales? And how are matter and space, opposites fundamental to the universe, intimately of and in us? For the answers—exciting and important—read “Space, Matter, Good Will, & the Whale,” the new issue… 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

Barbara Buehler, NYC planner and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about Ruth Oron’s important article “What I Learned about Kindness: Looking at a Painting by Vermeer”: Most people would say they want to be kind, and yet too often we feel we’re not. I thought I was kind in remembering friends’ birthdays and writing thank-you notes… 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