The Contrary Perspective

A college date rape in the early 1960s leads to a lifetime of silence only to be broken by an unexpected letter.

https://contraryperspective.com/2021/08/06/before-metoo-the-price-of-silence/

Alex Dunn It has been quiet here of late.  I think that a brief pause to reflect on just how long 4 years can seem has benefitted us all.  Such was the perceived length of Trump’s presidency,...

https://contraryperspective.com/2021/02/08/end-of-an-epoch-or-beginning-of-the-end/

b. traven Donald Trump will soon leave the White House, either on his own, or escorted by authorities. As the song says, he’ll “go where the goblins go, below, below, below.” It’s time fo...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/11/06/ding-dong-the-witch-is-gone/

Stuart Lyle Many envisage Donald Trump as a plague that has been visited upon the United States, bringing disorder, chaos, and the pestilence of a magnified pandemic. In this telling, before Tru...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/10/08/trumps-gift-to-america/

Stuart Lyle You have heard of the “October Surprise,” that unexpected turn of events, sometimes manufactured or timed, sometimes just random, that has out-sized influence on the results in No...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/08/28/how-the-coronavirus-could-save-the-us/

Dan Mason After the spectacular failure of Hillary Clinton to win a shoe-in election for one anointed and “whose time had come,” someone who deserved to be rewarded for past service to the pe...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/08/08/why-clinton-lost-and-more-importantly-why-biden-might-lose-as-well/

Poem by Michael Gallagher in memory of Hiroshima Day With a flash that seared and blinded, the blue August sky burst open above the bridge, a bridge, this time, over the Potomac. The Eumenides ha...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/08/06/the-furies-visit-the-smithsonian/

Written by Alex Dunn After over half a year of living and dying with the COVID-19 virus, a new form of tribalism has appeared.  The human capacity for finding opposing sides on any conceivable t...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/07/27/dawn-of-the-covid-19-era/

This post by Walter Abernathy In the middle of the social and economic catastophe caused by the coronavirus, the call for a Green New Deal is more relevant than ever. Based on the broad set of pr...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/07/11/13-presidents-ago-when-the-president-was-a-leader/

Daniel Mason Just look at a few of the stats for America (USA): 1) We dominate a continent which is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Oh, and throw ...

https://contraryperspective.com/2020/07/03/america-a-country-of-ungrateful-whiners/