ON JUNE 28, MORTIMER J. ADLER, propagandist for the reading of great books, indexer extraordinaire, and the world’s highest-salaried philosopher, died at the age of ninety-eight. I worked for Mortimer ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This year marks Aspen Country Day School’s 50th year. My tenure there spanned 13 of the school’s early years. My memory connects the school with Mortimer Adler, an important post-Paepcke contributor ...