the radical center

By Leslie Elliott Boyce

This project began as a way to call out ideological bias in counselor education specifically (and in education more generally) and has expanded to an examination of many aspects of our contemporary cu... more

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The podcast currently has 272 episodes available.

the radical center episodes:

June 27, 2024 How to Talk to Kids about "Pride" Symbols
I had a conversation with my kids the other night about what the "pride"
flags we see all over the place stand for. Here's a short video going
over how I explained them to my kids- perhaps it will be helpful for you
as you think about how to talk with your children about these issues.
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
13min
June 26, 2024 "Curricular Trauma," Title IX, & Freedom of Speech: a Conversation with FIRE Attorney Daniel Ortner
Daniel Ortner is an attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and
Expression (FIRE https://www.thefire.org) litigating on behalf of free
speech for all Americans. Daniel has written and spoken extensively
about First Amendment issues, including in The New York Times, The Hill,
and The Epoch Times. His law review articles on free speech have been
published in the Catholic University Law Review, BYU Law Review, and
Virginia Journal of International Law among others.
Daniel was born in Israel and moved to the United States at a young age.
He is grateful for the incredible blessings of liberty that he has
enjoyed in the United States, and particularly for the freedoms to
think, speak, worship, and associate that are guaranteed by the
Constitution. He loves to fight on behalf of individuals denied these
rights, to ensure that these precious liberties remain protected and
secure.
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
54min
June 25, 2024 Narrative Control & The "Longhouse:" Solid Ground #74
*note: there's some mic noise at first but stick with us- we get it
sorted out.
Also- we will be taking next Monday off and will be back on the stream
July 8th.
Jenny Holland joins us again to discuss some viewer feedback- we get
into a few juicy comments. Thank you all for your participation- we love
to get your feedback in the comments and live chats!
Jenny's substack: https://jennyeholland.substack.com/
and find her on Twitter @SemperFemina21
Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid
Ground Live stream. Find us at Solidgroundsupport.com
Twitter
@jleslieelliott
@dissidentdelite
@deborahknox
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 1min
June 24, 2024 Mental Health and Anti-White Hate: Open Therapy with Andrew Hartz
Andrew Hartz is the founder of the Open Therapy Institute:
https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/
He's a practicing clinical psychologist in New York City and was
formerly a professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Long
Island University in Brooklyn. He's written about politics and mental
health here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/freud-explains-cancel-culture-id-ego-superego-hypermorality-censorship-1960s-counterculture-implicit-bias-mental-illness-psychoanalysts-11659887354?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
and here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-diagnosis-for-american-polarization-11604447133?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
and he has developed materials for Heterodox Academy:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/resources/dialectical-thinking-classroom-activity-2/
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
32min
June 22, 2024 What the Mental Health Profession is Missing: Open Therapy with Dr. Andrew Hartz
Andrew Hartz is the founder of the Open Therapy Institute:
https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/
He's a practicing clinical psychologist in New York City and was
formerly a professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Long
Island University in Brooklyn. He's written about politics and mental
health here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/freud-explains-cancel-culture-id-ego-superego-hypermorality-censorship-1960s-counterculture-implicit-bias-mental-illness-psychoanalysts-11659887354?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
and here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-diagnosis-for-american-polarization-11604447133?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
and he has developed materials for Heterodox Academy:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/resources/dialectical-thinking-classroom-activity-2/
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
26min
June 21, 2024 The Surveillance State Starts with Our Kids: with Cari Bartholomew & Christine Sefein Wolk
The surveillance state starts with our kids:
https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-05/cisa-usss-k-12-bystander-reporting-toolkit-508_final_0.pdf
Christine Sefein Wolk of Critical Therapy Antidote
criticaltherapyantidote.org/
and parents' rights advocate Carob Marcelle join me to talk about Ethnic
Studies, and Carob shares some images taken from a new curriculum for
high schoolers.
Find more from Christine at https://www.youtube.com/@ctapodcast which
she hosts along with Jaco Van Zyl
To support Cari's campaign: https://www.cari4utkids.com
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/ 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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
51min
June 18, 2024 Anti-Woke Literature with Dr. Jamie Roberts: Lewis Carroll
About Dr. Jamie Roberts: I've spent much of my adult life studying at
university and then working at universities. After starting out in
Psychology and Mathematics I moved to English literature in which I
completed my honours degree. You write a short dissertation - using
Coetzee's Disgrace, I tried to talk about the nature of male sexual
desire and critiqued liberal feminism for failing to engage with it in
any way. After a soft cancellation following my first encounter with ID
Pol - this was 2002 - I moved to Politics to complete my PhD, but only
because I found someone who was willing to supervise me, and also, I
could only write about literature in the way I wanted to in the Politics
department. lol. In my PhD I tried to develop a model to explain the
nature of good and evil. I drew on literature and philosophy (Plato,
Conrad, Tolsoy, Nietzsche - amongst others) to explore how people do bad
things for the sake of power and belonging to the group. I learned that
nothing ever really changes - the way the academics around me behaved
fitted very closely with what I read in various classic works of
literature and philosophy. The PhD experience (2005-2009) was pretty
grim. There was more miserable ID Pol and idiot Postmodernism - and more
cruel arts academics. I was so disillusioned with academia I got a job
teaching academic skills at the University of New South Wales. This was
unambitious of me, but I was able to do a lot of teaching, which I still
love, and essentially teach people to think critically and write
coherently. In 2020 I became an academic at Sydney University in the
department of Politics and International Relations. This was quite a
surprise as I had really given up on academia. At USYD I taught
International Relations / International Security and Politics and
Popular Culture, and I wrote The Way of the Intellectual Dark Web. The
Identity Politics was always bad there, but it has got worse in recent
years - so no, I don't think we are past peak woke yet. Honestly,
despite many high points with teaching, for the most part, my whole
being recoils at how intellectually corrupt university is. Working there
is very much like sticking with an abusive relationship. I'm actually
currently on personal leave because it has all become too much - the
bullying superiors, the censorious students. It's very hard to do my
job; i.e. pursue truth. I'm always balancing my commitment to truth with
my own fears about how much I will be attacked if I step out of line
(and the attacks are quite regular).Outside all this, I write novels -
nothing published yet. I also write music. And I am starting to build a
vast art environment on some land that I own - my dream has always been
to do this (The Wollemi Art Farm). My heart lies with art: literature,
music and whatever I'm doing on my land, but also with teaching. I hope
to bring people out to my land and teach them about the classics:
Shakespeare, Shelley, Carroll, Sterne, Larkin, Forster. I also run
quests on my land - like Zelda, but in real life.Oh, and I also spend a
lot of my time with my two children - I love going on adventures with
them. There's nothing better, really.
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 8min
June 17, 2024 Are We Becoming an Addict/Codependent Society? Solid Ground #73 with Jenny Holland
Jenny Holland joins Deborah, Jen, and myself to talk about what we can
learn from revelations of Hunter Biden's behavior and relationships as
revealed during his trial. We also talk about observations from a
recent dialogue between Jordan Peterson and Eric Kaufmann about the
prominence of women in institutions.
Jenny Holland's substack: https://jennyeholland.substack.com/
and find her on Twitter @SemperFemina21
Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid
Ground Live stream. Find us at Solidgroundsupport.com
Twitter
@jleslieelliott
@dissidentdelite
@deborahknox
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 3min
June 11, 2024 Pride Flags, Monuments, Trump & Your Comments: Solid Ground #72
Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid
Ground Live stream. Find us at Solidgroundsupport.com
Twitter
@jleslieelliott
@dissidentdelite
@deborahknox
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h
June 04, 2024 Transphobia is a False Premise
Phobia is an irrational fear of something. A persistent, abnormal, and
irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to
avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not
dangerous.
from Greek phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear;
object of fear or terror," originally "flight"
In this case, transgender people
Redefinition is “fear OR HATRED” of transgender people
Hatred not a part of other phobias
Other phobias are identified by the phobic individual, with TRANSPHOBIA,
it is identified by someone else.
This is essentially a made up definition to get you to ignore your
concerns about gender ideology and what it means for a loved one to
decide that they are transgender. People who say they are transgender
are just like everyone else and just as deserving of love and respect as
anyone else, but their preoccupation with gender ideology can eclipse
other aspects of their identity, and often a part of their ideology
includes demanding that those around them reflect their gender fixation
back to them in a particular way. I want to encourage you to reject
that framework. Going along with the gender framework is not helpful
for your loved one, who is essentially at war with his or her body and
reproductive system. Remaining firmly grounded in truth and focused on
other aspects of the individual and your relationship with them is more
compassionate because it does not encourage them in their
self-rejection.
If you do this, however, you will be called a transphobe. In this video
I go over some of the ways this term is being used and get into some of
the logical distortions and inconsistencies in the gender framework.
_____________________________________________________________________
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/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
20min

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