The enduring, unsettling truth that ‘Rashomon’ showed us

The enduring, unsettling truth that ‘Rashomon’ showed us

You could say it was the moment that Ronald Reagan said, “Facts are stupid things,” misquoting John Adams at the 1988 Republican National Convention, or when Bill Clinton said, “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” during grand jury testimony 10 years later. Or maybe the knowabilit...