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Veterans Day and the Pacifist’s Dilemma – Radius, Volume Nine

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November 11, 2018 by author

By Victor D. Infante

Veteran’s Day is odd for a pacifist. In some ways, it feels almost hypocritical when you spend the rest of the year in moral opposition to violence in general and warfare in particular, especially when you … Continue reading→

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Feels Like Failure, Every Time: Gun violence, superheroes and saving the supervillain

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March 7, 2018 by author

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By Victor D. Infante

There is a level where the very phrase “mass shooting” has become stripped of its shock value. A school in Florida or Connecticut, a movie theater in Colorado, a church in South Carolina, a country … Continue reading→

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This Is Normal: The First Step in Changing the World is Accepting the Truth

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May 30, 2017 by author

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By Victor D. Infante

Perhaps it would help if we were quicker to define terms. Take this past Saturday, for example – a mere week after a suicide bomber in Manchester, England, killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert … Continue reading→

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The Assumption of Heroism and Other Thoughts on Violence

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December 7, 2015 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Victor D. Infante
1.) Dancing With Heroes

Perhaps the most fascinating journey on the most-recent season of Dancing with the Stars was that of Alek Skarlato, the 23-year-old Army National Guardsman specialist who, along with two fellow … Continue reading→

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