Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: With all the turmoil in our schools, what are our nation’s children hoping for most? How can the subjects in the curriculum really interest them, excite them? What can truly enable them to learn, and to value people different from themselves? Read the clear answers to… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: In order to like ourselves, do we have to see that our individual self is related to the whole world and other persons? Yes! Read “Your Particular Self–& All People,” the exciting new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. The commentary by editor Ellen Reiss… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: There’s hardly anything that confuses people more than our own feelings. A man can try to be cool, have little emotion—and then feel empty and ask, “Why am I often so cold and unmoved?” At other times he can explode angrily—even at people he… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Why can the same person go from caring about people to feeling cold toward them? Why is there so much unfeelingness in the world still, after centuries—and what can change it? These questions are answered, mightily, in “Fellow-Feeling, & What’s Against It,” the new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to… Read more

Louis Dienes, poet and photographer, began to study Aesthetic Realism in 1943. He recommends Eli Siegel’s poem “Ralph Isham, 1753 and Later” and says: Human beings of all ages–including me–have puzzled over, wrestled with, and tried to make sense out of two mighty opposites, life and death. In a great free verse poem of 1925,… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Why do people so often feel frustrated? And what is the chief frustration in our lives? Does it come from the outside world’s constantly thwarting us, or from a cause within ourselves that we need to understand? For the answers to these questions, and so much… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Again and again, a woman who may see herself as smart, savvy, and confident feels foolish when it comes to love. Why does reason, logic, often go out the window as one thinks about a person one hopes to care for? As the speakers… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Do the inner battles of a famous American author have to do with our own biggest questions?  Are these questions about how we see our relation to the whole world?  Read “Our Selves & Ernest Hemingway,” the great new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. The commentary by… Read more

Barbara Kestenbaum, retired union delegate and shop steward, writes for the Unions Matter! blog. She says: I think unionists, economists, and everyone who cares about the well-being of our country should read “America—& What Unions Are About.” The commentary by Ellen Reiss in this issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known is… Read more

Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema: Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, John Dillinger, Baby-Face Nelson have been portrayed on the big screen. What’s the attraction of gangster films? Many of them (maybe most) exploit… Read more