the radical center

Sanity Check is a live-streamed collaboration between Cari Bartholomew, Christine Sefein-Wolk, and myself. We typically stream once or twice a month. Thank you for tuning in!Find more from Christine at https://www.youtube.com/@ctapodcast which she co-hosts.And you can find more from Cari at https://www.youtube.com/@UC9LGYDq130G42FyfCJJLOZA She is also on Twitter at @carobmarcelle_____________________________________________________________________If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ I am also on X @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenterhttps://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenterAnother great way to support my work (and get something nice for yourself!) is to shop my handmade ceramics online at: https://ceramics.wherethealdersgrow.comJoin us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid Ground Live stream. Come join our Solid Ground peer support and discussion groups at https://sground.substack.com/ And you can join our locals community at https://solidground.locals.com/ Additional resources and affiliates: Critical Therapy Antidote: https://criticaltherapyantidote.orgChristine Sefein Wolk: cohost of the CTA podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ctapodcast

Karen King is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and trainer with nearly 20 years of clinical experience, specializing in trauma, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and psychedelic integration. Trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy through MAPS, she has spent the last several years helping clients and clinicians approach psychedelic medicine with both clinical rigor and philosophical depth. As co-author of the upcoming book The Conservative Case for Psychedelics, Karen brings a free-thinking and intellectually independent voice to a field often dominated by narrow ideological perspectives, arguing that healing, personal responsibility, tradition, and human dignity deserve a central place in the psychedelic conversation. Through her writing, teaching, and public speaking, she advocates for clinical neutrality, open dialogue, and making space for more politically and philosophically diverse voices in mental health and psychedelic therapy.Wes is a ‘small c’ conservative (pro business, individual liberty, and limited government) psychonaut, and writer focused on bringing the psychedelic renaissance out of the counterculture and into the living rooms of average Americans. After a head injury led him to explore nontraditional paths for healing, he discovered that, in the right set and setting, psychedelics candeepen the very values conservatives hold dear: faith, family, duty, and personal responsibility, while expanding our awareness of our collective consciousness .He’s the co-author, along with therapist Karen King, of the forthcoming book The Case for Conservative Psychedelics: How American Values Can Save the Movement and Strengthen America. The book chronicles veterans, parents, entrepreneurs, and churchgoers who’ve used these tools to reconnect with purpose and the people they love, and lays out conservative principles that support the use of psychedelics.His work sits at the intersection of science and ethos—bridging evidence-based research with a culturally grounded case for humility, gratitude, and moral clarity when approaching altered states that don’t fit nicely into scientific categories. He has engaged with clinicians, veterans’ advocates, pastors, and policy voices, and he speaks candidly about guardrails: legality, preparation, integration, and community accountability. Whether addressing the two major orthodoxies inside the psychedelic movement or the broader Left-Right rift in our culture, Wes argues that freedom and order aren’t rivals—they are the necessary elements of any society that wishes to promote human flourishing._____________________________________________________________________If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ I am also on X @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenterhttps://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenterAnother great way to support my work (and get something nice for yourself!) is to shop my handmade ceramics online at: https://ceramics.wherethealdersgrow.comJoin us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid Ground Live stream. Come join our Solid Ground peer support and discussion groups at https://sground.substack.com/ And you can join our locals community at https://solidground.locals.com/ Additional resources and affiliates: Critical Therapy Antidote: https://criticaltherapyantidote.orgChristine Sefein Wolk: cohost of the CTA podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ctapodcast

Amy Farah Weiss is the founder and director of Saint Francis Challenge, a nonprofit launched in San Francisco in 2015 that works to end street homelessness and build a movement of resident stewardship through the co-creation of “BEST Places” — communities of Belonging, Essential Needs, Shared Agreements, and Teamwork.Born and raised in the Bay Area, Amy earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz in the late ’90s and later a master’s degree in Organizational Development from San Francisco State. She now lives in New Mexico, where she leads a Resident Steward Trainee pilot at supported housing and shelter sites working in partnership with the City of Santa Fe.www.saintfrancischallenge.orghttps://www.linkedin.com/company/saint-francis-challengehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/amyfarahweiss/Community First! Village (Austin): https://mlf.org/community-first/Haven for Hope (San Antonio): https://www.havenforhope.org/a-blueprint-for-hope/_____________________________________________________________________If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ I am also on X @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenterhttps://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenterAnother great way to support my work (and get something nice for yourself!) is to shop my handmade ceramics online at: https://ceramics.wherethealdersgrow.comJoin us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid Ground Live stream. Come join our Solid Ground peer support and discussion groups at https://sground.substack.com/ And you can join our locals community at https://solidground.locals.com/ Additional resources and affiliates: Critical Therapy Antidote: https://criticaltherapyantidote.orgChristine Sefein Wolk: cohost of the CTA podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ctapodcast

Erik Lidström holds an MSc and a PhD in physics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an MBA from the Open University, UK. After conducting research at the ESRF in Grenoble, France, he entered the software industry in 2000. He has worked in Britain, France, Sweden, and Morocco, and now resides in Northern Sweden. He writes books and articles on political economy, political science, and other societal matters. Apart from an unrelated day job, he also works on renovating and extending his house.In English, he has published two books:Education Unchained – What it takes to restore schools and learning (2015), third edition in 2024. Recommended by Choice in 2016.Evolution and Social Order – How our Stone Age brain understands and misunderstands society (2025)_____________________________________________________________________If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenterhttps://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

Paul Rossi was a career math teacher until 2021, when he exposed the damaging effects of CRT indoctrination at his high school.He now directs the Terra Firma Teaching Alliance (http://www.tfteach.org), a networking and support organization for K-12 teachers in the U.S. and Canada. Terra Firma works to add viewpoint diversity and sound pedagogy to curriculum in public, private and charter schools.He also writes on X @pauldrossi about politics, culture, and education._____________________________________________________________________If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenterhttps://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter