Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Aesthetic Realism is great in its explanation of two huge subjects—ownership and power—and how they affect our lives. That’s what the current issue of TRO is about. For instance: Can we have a sense of ownership that hurts us very much?—and what would it mean for… Read more

Dr. Jaime Torres, Senior Advisor to the President & CEO at Urban Health Plan, a community health network, writes: How important it is for people to know that everyone is in a fight all the time. And that fight is between the pleasure of respect—seeing meaning in people and things—and the satisfaction we get from… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new issue of TRO, “Poetry, Ourselves, & What Reality Has,” is richly surprising and kind. Do you know how much meaning things and people can have for you? You’ll have a new sight of how much through this issue. Here, some important poems—and also large matters in the world… Read more

Matthew D’Amico, Aesthetic Realism associate, and political coordinator for a New York State labor union, says: With the 2023 baseball season in full swing, people all over our country are going to ballparks or watching televised games—and cheering for their teams. And amid all the hubbub and feeling, there’s Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: A new and big experience awaits you in this latest issue of TRO, titled “Can Incongruity Be Seen Beautifully? Yes.” Do we use what doesn’t seem to make sense in life, the incongruous, to see the world as against us—to tell ourselves reality is something to have contempt for? Meanwhile,… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Aesthetic Realism is the education that shows the deep, organic, tremendously hopeful relation between poetry and our lives! That is what this current issue of TRO is about. And you’ll learn about a fight within everyone, which people haven’t understood: How much do we want to… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “Abandon—Good and Bad,” is new, kind, and absolutely thrilling. Looking at the opposites of abandon and exactitude, it illustrates the great central principle of Aesthetic Realism: Eli Siegel’s statement “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” Letting go and… Read more

NYC Planner Barbara Buehler writes about this landmark 1947 essay by Eli Siegel: Most people don’t understand why they are unhappy–I certainly didn’t. Growing up in Pound Ridge, NY, and later studying international politics at George Washington University, I thought my biggest problem was my shyness, the fact that I couldn’t connect with other people. That,… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “Value, Criticism, & Ourselves” is richly encouraging of the best thing in a person: our desire to value truly what is in the world! This issue of The Right Of includes a magnificent discussion by Eli Siegel of a thrilling passage from Walt Whitman’s Preface to Leaves of Grass. It also… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: This new issue of The Right Of, titled “An Inseparable Fighting-and-Love,” does something enormously important and kind. It’s about opposites that pain people very much: for and against, welcoming and fighting. And it explains that every instance of true beauty—including a symphony of Beethoven, a still-life by Cézanne, a poem by Walt Whitman—is… Read more