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

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.”

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

How can we justify the military giving addictive pills to their warriors?