Mortimer Adler built a publishing empire around the Great Books of the Western World. Scott McLemee interviews an author who has mapped its terrain. Originally published by Encyclopedia Britannica in ...

At the memorial service, one speaker remembered Mortimer Adler’s “wonderful, elfinlike face.” Another talked of his attachment to angels, those “messengers of God” who were, to him, a kind of fantasy ...

Adler passionately believes that most people, even those with college degrees, have not really acquired the skills necessary to explore the world of ideas. To document his argument that people are not ...

Mortimer J. Adler, the iconoclastic encyclopedist and progenitor of the “Great Books” collection of notable writers and thinkers, died Thursday at his home in San Mateo. He was 98. The former longtime ...

For those wishing to read to the end of Mortimer Adler’s book (previously discussed here), his main theme is that the power of conceptual human thought is unduplicated anywhere else in the Universe.

While enjoying Christopher Beha’s recent book about reading the Harvard Classics, “The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else,” I was ...

What kills wonder is habituated boredom; what grows it is inspired practice. In his classic 1940 tome entitled How to Read a Book, the philosopher-educator Mortimer Adler delivered what has become, ...

Two Latin teachers* recently agreed that the event which would give them most pleasure and at the same time mightily advance the cause of true education would be to blow up Teachers College at ...