Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: The new issue of TRO—about the beautiful and utterly practical way Aesthetic Realism sees poetry—is enormously kind. What is poetry, the real thing? Does every good poem have within it, in its technique, a way of seeing reality—events, people, objects—that we need and want, even want desperately? Yes! … Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Is there a fight in everyone—the central fight in our minds—that affects all our decisions, and our happiness? This issue of TRO explains, and uses thrilling poetry to show, what that fight is—and you’ll learn about how the fight in us has to do with love, economics, America now! There’s nothing… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of TRO, “A World That Has Meaning!” is thrilling, important, and needed by people right now.  What are we—what is everyone—most hoping for as 2023 is soon to begin?  Is it to see that other things and the world itself have fresh and authentic value?  Yes!  But what… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: A question crucial in the life of every person is: how much meaning and value should the world have for me? Reading the new issue of TRO, you’ll be surprised and thrilled by the magnificent, logical way that question is dealt with by Aesthetic Realism. And so… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What are people really hoping for in love? And what causes the anger and disappointment that so often accompany—or take the place of—what people thought was love? Reading this new issue of TRO, you’ll be thrilled by the understanding of what love really is—and of what in a person… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This logical, thrilling issue of TRO is about something tremendously important in our lives. It’s titled “Fact, Value–& Our Own Emotions.”  Do we want to be fair to the facts—about people, about things?  Do we want to value things accurately?  Do we want to look at our feelings as facts?… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What can we learn about our own worries from one of the most important documents in American history? What would it mean to worry in a way that makes us stronger, kinder, prouder? That’s what the latest issue of TRO is about. For instance: there’s a… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The basis of “Emphasis, Art, & Ourselves” is some of the greatest seeing in human thought: the seeing by Eli Siegel that “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” Two of art’s opposites, and… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Dickens at his deepest and largest, and life in America today: what is the relation between them? In “Good Nature, Dickens, & Power,” you’ll see something completely new: that good nature is not a matter of being pleasant—there is nothing more important and truly demanding in… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Great pleasure and education await the reader of “Knowledge—Excited and True.” You’ll learn about the best thing in humanity, in yourself—the desire to know—and also about what in oneself interferes with that best thing. And, as you read Eli Siegel’s powerful discussion of Charles Dickens, you will be experiencing… Read more