This issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known is about the tremendous matter of how things and people truly are, fundamentally and beautifully, both alike and different. This ontological fact is also urgent, as Ellen Reiss and Eli Siegel show in the commentary and lecture included here. Ms. Reiss writes: “For racism to end fully in the minds and feelings of people, humanity needs to see, consciously, what can really replace and render unappealing the cheap victory of contempt within oneself. That is, we need to see the aesthetic victory and know what it is: the oneness of sameness and difference; the feeling, “I’m me, individual, even glorious, as I see I’m in a vibrant, deep relation of sameness and difference with all people—in fact, all things.” Read the issue here.

And read this powerful issue: “Like of the World versus Racism.”