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The Catholic Response to Trump’s Attacks on the Church with Dr. Anthea Butler and Rev. James Martin, SJ

The Catholic Response to Trump’s Attacks on the Church with Dr. Anthea Butler and Rev. James Martin, SJ

 Have you noticed how Pope Leo’s calm, fearless stance is rattling those in power? He’s not just speaking to Catholics; he’s challenging the very idea that religion should be silent in times of crisis, whether the topic is war or the treatment of immigrants. This week, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush welcomes two leading American Catholic voices: religion professor Dr. Anthea Butler and best-selling author Father Jim Martin, SJ. They’ve got deep insights on the ways race, religion, and political priorities inform the furious responses from the White House and other powerful figures—and efforts to deny the moral authority of the head of one of the world’s largest religions. Dr. Anthea Butler is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of Social Thought and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s the author of the book White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Rev. Jim Martin is editor-at-large at the Jesuit America Magazine, consultor to the Vatican, and author of many books, including his latest—a memoir titled Work in …

Harry Styles, Jacob Elordi, and Austin Butler Can’t Get Enough of This Iconic Jacket

Harry Styles, Jacob Elordi, and Austin Butler Can’t Get Enough of This Iconic Jacket

Aside from being tens of thousands of people’s hall pass, what do Jacob Elordi, Austin Butler, Harry Styles, and Jeremy Allen White have in common? All of them can’t get enough of their blue chore coats. Which is some news, considering we thought we were potentially in a post-chore coat world. It’s even more significant when you consider that none of them are wearing theirs as part of any brand ambassador duties. Instead, they’re being papped in them while off-duty, strolling the cobbled streets of Europe, cheering at baseball games, or lounging poolside in Italy. And they all look so good, in an enviably disheveled way, that it’s making us think we called time on a classic too soon. The chore coat’s ease, mixed with its romantic history, is clearly too good to move on from. (It also helps with pulling off this season’s elite style move: primary color blocking.) Jumping briefly from the present to the past, here’s what you need to know about the style. In circulation since the Industrial Revolution, the first …

The ‘Miami Vice’ Remake is On, and Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan Are In

The ‘Miami Vice’ Remake is On, and Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan Are In

Miami Vice ‘85, the second major movie to reimagine the beloved Reagan-era cop TV staple, has officially cast Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan as auramaxxing detectives Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs. And they’ve found the perfect director for a movie that you’d hope will teem with adrenalized ‘80s action: Joseph Kosinski, the filmmaker behind Top Gun: Maverick and F1, two of the rip-roaringest blockbusters of the last half-decade. Per the action auteur’s stylish signature, expect a ton of POV shots from behind the wheel of Sonny and Rico’s ice white Daytona Spider. At least Butler and Jordan will be spared the vomit-inducing Gs of a jet fighter trip. Combining the cinematic strengths of two of the hottest leading men around—the latter having just netted his first Oscar win for Sinners, the breakout box office success of 2025—feels as fault-proof as it comes, like going on FIFA Career Mode and immediately splurging on Haaland and Mbappe. According to Variety, Miami Vice ‘85 has long orbited the two actors, with Kosinski expressing interest in casting the …

The Book Octavia E. Butler Wanted Forgotten is Being Reprinted

The Book Octavia E. Butler Wanted Forgotten is Being Reprinted

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Novel, Survivor, is Being Republished Survivor by Octavia E. Butler was originally published in 1978 as the third book in the Patternist series. Later, Butler derided the book as rushed and undeveloped—she wrote it on a tight deadline to fund a research trip to write Kindred. After 40 years out of print, it’s now being republished. I was initially skeptical about this, but Malia Mendez puts together good points to support the reprint in her LA Times article. For one thing, Butler didn’t specify that she never wanted Survivor to be reprinted. It’s also already been fed into AI models. If fans and academics studying Butler’s work want access to the same text, should they have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a used copy? Today In Books Sign up to Today …

Marjorie Taylor Greene Amplifies Viral Doubts About Butler Assassination Attempt

Marjorie Taylor Greene Amplifies Viral Doubts About Butler Assassination Attempt

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has drawn attention to a detailed personal account from a longtime Trump supporter who now questions key elements of the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In an April 12 post on X, Trisha Hope, a self-described J6 activist and 2024 Republican National Convention delegate from Texas, details how she shifted from staunch MAGA supporter to skeptic –  writing “I learned of the attempt on Trump’s life at the Butler rally.  I was in the middle of having dinner at a restaurant in Little Rock, AR.” Then, at the convention, she thought it was strange that Trump opened his speech by saying he would recount the incident “exactly” once because “it’s actually too painful to tell,” which she found out of character for someone who makes everything about himself. Hope also thought that the ‘ICONIC’ photograph of Trump rising with fist raised, shouting “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT” was weird and “perfectly timed” with a flag lowering and Secret Service agents positioned …

Why this Octavia Butler book is the ultimate book club read

Why this Octavia Butler book is the ultimate book club read

Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” topped our 101 Best Book Club List survey by receiving the most votes. We talked to Nikki High, the founder of Octavia’s Bookshelf bookstore in Pasadena, about Butler’s legacy and why the title resonates with so many. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. The book was first published in 1993, and speaking for myself, I read it in ’93 and the year 2024 felt like something that could never happen, right? Now that we are here in 2026, we’re two years into the book as it starts — it’s a great book club read because we’re in this together at the same time that she’s writing about. I think there’s going to be some incredible discussions around “Parable of the Sower” in book clubs this year. I read “Parable of the Sower” every six or seven years, and depending on what’s going on, something different resonates with me. When I reread it again, I felt like our main character, Lauren Olamina, being 15 years old, …

Austin Butler Is Welcoming Muscle-Tee Season With Open (and Bare) Arms

Austin Butler Is Welcoming Muscle-Tee Season With Open (and Bare) Arms

If you were not already aware, Austin Butler is even more shredded than usual. Last year, the Oscar nominee started working with trainer Roy Chan to get yoked for his role in the movie Enemies, co-starring the equally jacked Jeremy Allen White. (Get this: They’re enemies.) Chan even posted a sweaty video of Butler training his absolute heart out on an Assault bike, rightfully sending the internet into a tizzy. Though Enemies wrapped filming last summer, Butler appears to have been keeping up with his high-octane fitness routine, as evidenced by his recent getup during a grocery-store run in Los Angeles. During his trip to the organic grocer Lassens Market in Los Feliz on Wednesday, Butler clutched a bottled Essentia water in a sweat-ready outfit: a raw-hemmed, faded-black muscle tank, dark Adidas track pants, and some not-so-sweat-ready sunglasses from Jacques Marie Mage. (We’re not sure what’s driving celebs wearing sub-$1,000 JMM eyewear when they’re getting a sweat sesh in, but it’s a thing.) Though it’s unclear whether or not Butler is currently training for any …

A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler

A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler

The NEO robot from tech company 1X is marketed as a home assistant 1X Science fiction is strewn with humanoid robots, from bad-tempered Bender in Futurama to cunning Ava in Ex Machina. And it has long seemed like that’s the natural home for such robots – on the screen and in books. The idea of a walking, talking, functioning robot with two arms and two legs has appeared to be a distant dream. But things are changing. Last year, machines ran, boxed and even played football at China’s World Humanoid Robot Games, albeit sometimes falling over in the process. Meanwhile, companies have been readying their own range of humanoids that promise to do something a bit more useful: help around the house. At the tail end of last year, robotics company 1X opened preorders for its NEO robot, with deliveries expected this year –  a crucial milestone. And with several other companies also now offering humanoid assistants for sale, we are finally living in a world where you can essentially buy yourself a robot butler. …

Alcaraz rolls at Indian Wells as NBA’s Butler cheers from sidelines

Alcaraz rolls at Indian Wells as NBA’s Butler cheers from sidelines

INDIAN WELLS, California, March 7 : World number one Carlos Alcaraz began his Indian Wells campaign on Saturday with a victory in front of friend and NBA star Jimmy Butler, who attended the match despite being on crutches following a season-ending ACL tear. Both athletes are known for their off-court camaraderie and mutual support, with Butler in attendance when Alcaraz won his first Wimbledon title in 2023 and basketball fan Alcaraz having attended NBA games.  “He’s my guy. I knew that he was coming,” Alcaraz said after his 6-2 6-3 second-round win over Grigor Dimitrov.  “I am just really happy that, with everything he’s been through with the knee, that he can show up and watch my match and to have a little bit of time with him afterwards.” Tennis enthusiast and six-time NBA All-Star Butler was a staple at the Miami Open during his time on the Miami Heat, and took part in a U.S. Open charity event with Alcaraz in 2023 and in Qatar last year.  Now a member of the Golden State …

Austin Butler to play Lance Armstrong in film biopic from Oscar-winning director

Austin Butler to play Lance Armstrong in film biopic from Oscar-winning director

Elvis star Austin Butler has been cast as Lance Armstrong in an upcoming biopic depicting the rise and fall of the cyclist from Oscar-winning director Edward Berger. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere producer Scott Stuber has acquired Armstrong’s full life rights for the project, which will be directed by Conclave’s Berger, who won an Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, and written by Zach Baylin (King Richard). Baylin, Josh Glick, and Zac Frognowski are on board as executive producers on the film, which, according to Deadline, is being offered to studios and has led to a bidding war, with multiple offers in from major studios. Want to see this content? We’re not able to show you this content from Google reCAPTCHA. Please sign out of Contentpass to view this content. Sign out of ContentPass It marks another collaboration between Butler and Berger, after it was revealed in 2024 that the pair were working together on time-travel thriller The Barrier. Butler is best known for playing the starring role in the Elvis biopic, …