Where does the modern "Georgetown set" live and socialize?
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Anonymous
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Curious to hear your thoughts on where the modern version of the old “Georgetown set” lives and socializes today. I'm thinking of the mix of journalists, national security types, political operators, diplomats, and establishment-adjacent intellectuals who clustered in Georgetown in the Cold war era. The crowd that orbited the Kennedys, Grahams, Bradlees, Harrimans, etc.
I’m less interested in where wealth lives (plenty of that in McLean, Potomac, etc.); more where those with foreign policy influence and proximity to power tend to congregate these days. If you go to a dinner party filled with (non-MAGA) NSC staffers, Foreign Affairs contributors, and think tank luminaries, where is that likely to be? |
Anonymous
| thinking of inviting yourself? |
Anonymous
| Cosmos Club |
Anonymous
| I don’t know but if I ever have to read another Sally Quinn column about this topic I will poke my eyeballs out with a silver cocktail pick. |
Anonymous
| Not a neighborhood, but you described the Metropolitan Club. |
Anonymous
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It doesn't exist anymore for the most part aside from Kalorama and Juleanna Glover's house. But not sure she is even into that anymore.
We are a divided city and country. People don't have manners or civility anymore. The Republican VP of our age spends his evenings s***posting on twitter, not at cocktail parties with Democrats and WP reporters. |
Anonymous
Lol, you are my people. |
Anonymous
Ha, ha, ha. You forgot to add …in 1975. |
Anonymous
| Everybody is on their smartphones. |
Anonymous
| After work they get on their private jets and fly to Mar a Lago to kiss their leader’s ass. |
Anonymous
Right? The only Cosmos Club members I know are either really old or couldn't get into Metropolitan or Sulgrave. |
Anonymous
| I won't say where in DC, but my neighborhoold potlucks include a number of these people. Some are quite interesting and would provide that interest you are looking for. But others are 100% on the spectrum or very insecure and cannot stand run of the mill extroverts like me. |
Anonymous
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Capitol Hill has a surprising number of highly influential people but low key and not really having fancy dinner parties. But more likely to be “that NYTimes journalist with the big byline covering ME” than some rich donor who is buddies with the Secretary of State.
I think certain pockets of Bethesda/Chevy Chase/NW DC are more likely to have dinner parties with “luminaries” (such as they are in DC). |
Anonymous
Eh, at least w/CC you have to have impressive academic chops, not just A5 Japanese Kobe beef chops. |
Anonymous
The Hill right? We also have Steve Bannon and random Congress people living in basements. |