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Manfred Kuehn on Kant's Cosmopolitanism

Animal Ethics

They are dismissed by some as a "Eurocentric illusion," and praised by others as the answer to the problem of humanity's survival. I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth). Our duties to them, he argued, are actually duties to particular human beings.

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Animal Ethics

Perhaps I should have gotten the house number and called the Humane Society or Fort Worth Animal Control. Now, because of the man's anger at my officiousness, I'm afraid. It was a no-win situation. What would you have done? I considered this, but decided that nothing would be done.

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Birding Morelia

10,000 Birds

One of the advantages of Morelia as a birding/tourist destination is that we receive direct flights from Houston on United, Dallas/Fort Worth on American, and Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose (California), and Chicago/Midway on the Mexican carrier Volaris.

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