Diversity in Damascus – Damascus, Maryland, that is. Today’s Washington Post has an interesting article about “diversity,” i.e., blacks, coming to this formerly nearly all white, isolated rural community at the northern edge of generally suburban Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County, some of you might recall, was half of the focus of David Brooks’s fascinating Atlantic Monthly article last December contrasting the lifestyles and outlooks of Red and Blue America. “Montgomery County,” Brooks wrote,
is one of the steaming-hot centers of the great espresso machine that is Blue America. It is just over the border from northwestern Washington, D.C., and it is full of upper-middle-class towns inhabited by lawyers, doctors, stockbrokers, and establishment journalists like me
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to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know.
Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition
to crave knowledge.
— George Will