Jacques Berlinerblau is a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University. He has authored numerous books about the subject of secularism, including the recent “Secularism: The Basics” (Routledge).
Hosted by SNL’s Colin Jost, the 2024 White House Correspondents Association Dinner will take place Saturday night. The show will be staged at that shrine to comedy, the Washington, D.C. Hilton. The event, which lets comedians mock powerful people is usually a flaming hot mess atop a dumpster floating, languidly, in a lake of chunky sludge.
” NBC reports that pro-Palestinian activists, as with environmentalists last year, will protest the event. They have every right to demonstrate. I believe their goal of shutting it down, however, is misguided. Suppressing art and/or political speech, especially when the speech is neither an incitement to violence nor targeting any one group, is a terrible idea. The aforementioned hitches suggest to me that many groups will be offended by evening’s end.
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