Mr. Blue’s relevance endures because of its call to look deeply inward and compassionately outward.

The combination of religion and politics then, just as today, was reinforced in cultural practices.

As Nixon aged, Butterfield told Woodward, “instead of mellowing, the neuroses intensified and he lumped them all together.”

In this most classic of philosophical tales, Socrates dies a death that has been the subject of so much speculation and controversy.

"All of us come from a place we mistake for universal," Kenneth L. Woodward explains, "So you should know something of mine."