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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for November 2026:

Classic:
The lynching of the guilty is a subtler but no less deadly blow to civilization than the lynching of the innocent.
— Peter Viereck, Conservatism Revisited (Free Press, 1962).

What defines a virtual mobbing is not the target’s innocence or guilt of an offense. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn correctly observed that everyone is guilty of something.
— Virtual Mobbing and Mellen Press, online essay, 2014.

Garden moment for November 2026:

Remarkably, November begins this year without Niagara yet having had a killing frost. Here is a photogenic worm from this season's mosaiculture next to the Floral Showhouse of Niagara Parks.

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