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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for June 2026:

Classic:
To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation” – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
— Aldous Huxley, introduction to a 1934 edition of Samuel Butler, Erewhon.

Direct:
Your ethics tribunal, if it is staffed by true believers in its aims, is a tinderbox of hysteria. … It can ignite even sodden minds and set them raging in righteous indignation.
— Eliminating Professors, 1998.

Garden moment for June 2026:

In our backyard, June is the month of lavender: specifically, the Massuet cultivar developed in Niagara, and well suited to the climate of this peninsula.

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