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 ...

Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler of the University of Chicago, 47, is a bounding dynamo of a man who is apt to have, “in my more paranoiac moments,” rather extravagant visions. “Imagine Carnegie Hall,” ...

Several months ago I mentioned a book by philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, “The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes,” and noted that we’d be having an online discussion here in the fall. The ...

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