Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, along comes news of an existential threat more insidious than Ebola: While you and I were sleeping, millennials have gradually taken over America’s cities.

We’d all be better off if we died at 75, says the medical ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel. He mistakenly assumes that so-called “useless” people serve no useful purpose.

Could the recent violent Center City encounter between a gay couple and suburban homophobes have been averted through the use of less confrontational language? Let me suggest five alternative scenarios.

Why is a mediocre sports team like the Phillies prospering in its new home while great artistic and educational institutions struggle in their new venues?

America and its allies enjoy overwhelming superiority when it comes to air power and drones. But ISIS seems to be winning the war for the hearts and minds of the young and impressionable. Here’s my contribution to the rhetorical war in the Middle East.

I don’t love all French people, any more than I love all Americans. But I do love what France stands for — which isn’t necessarily better than what America stands for, but is most assuredly different.

What’s a testosterone-obsessed national leader to do when someone calls him a wimp? In the Internet age, when perception trumps reality, our old reliable giants of classical literature, drama, and cinema offer precious little guidance. Satirists must pick up the torch.

Sometime in the future, a new arrival from Philadelphia stands at the entrance to the pearly gates, awaiting his admission interview.

Western pundits seem convinced that Vladimir Putin is modeling himself after Peter the Great. But in one very important respect, these two Russian rulers are poles apart.

What’s the world’s greatest novel, movie, or orchestra? Who’s the greatest painter or composer? In any matters involving personal taste, who knows? And why do even rabbis buy into this listing mania?