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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for January 2026:

Newest:
It is not only the kingdom of God that is within you, but the spirit of persecution. This spirit, which is waiting within most if not all of us to emerge when the circumstances are right, has to be controlled, damped down, by an effort of will and intellect. Law alone will not do it.
— Theodore Dalrymple, "Zero Tolerance,"Taki's Magazine, 2 January 2026.

Direct:
In my lectures on workplace mobbing, I sometimes say there are three basic appetites in a normal person: for food, for sex, and for humiliating somebody else.
— “SAFS and the Darker Forces,” 2001.

Garden moment for January 2026:

The arboretum of the University of California at Santa Cruz has a large collection of exotic bottlebrush (Callistemon) species, native to Australia. The blooms on this yellow one look like upright roasting ears of corn.

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