The Gift of Bias: How My Wrongful Conviction Helped Me Become a Better Thinker

 The Gift of Bias: How My Wrongful Conviction Helped Me Become a Better Thinker

After her wrongful conviction for murder in 2007, Amanda Knox was haunted by one question: why? Why did this happen? How could the pursuit of justice have gone so far off course? Corruption and evil were not satisfactory answers for her. Instead, she found un…

In 2007, I was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. I had been there for five weeks, my eyes wide with the excitement of navigating a foreign culture, my heart aflutter over a nerdy boy Id met at a cla…