Are We Painting Ourselves and Others Into a Corner?

The Importance Of Holding Opposing Stories In Our Heads

Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel,” 1556 (Wikimedia Commons)

This summer, a Vanity Fair headline about the 2019 disappearance of Jennifer Farber caught my eye, lifting the veil anew on a stranger’s ghost story.

The story of Ms. Farber has haunted me from the get-go, despite the fact that I’m not especially voyeuristic in this regard. I don’t watch true…