Where does the modern "Georgetown set" live and socialize?

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure this exists so much anymore. You can probably find smaller pockets of it all over though not to the extent before. People are more likely to live all over the country or world and travel or remote in with technology. The “alt right” has built a little concentrated cultural enclave on Capitol Hill, but it’s fairly small— the lawyers, diplomats, policymakers etc of the Hill by and large still lean liberal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cosmos Club

Ha, ha, ha. You forgot to add …in 1975.

Right? The only Cosmos Club members I know are either really old or couldn't get into Metropolitan or Sulgrave.

Eh, at least w/CC you have to have impressive academic chops, not just A5 Japanese Kobe beef chops.

It's 2025 though, are academic chops still impressive?

[Anonymous]

My favorite club is the Society of the Cincinatti, because it's hereditary and completely irrelevant, which is sort of a standing monument to us being right about the war in the first place. And it's an underrated wedding venue.

[Anonymous]

If you’re even mildly useful to the ruling classes you will be invited to one of many. If not, then no. What for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

Up their own a--es by far the most likely location.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if dinner parties died.

They are dead for Gen Xers in the lower reaches of the Upper Middle Class. Everyone meets at restaurants.

When I was a kid, my parents socialized like the old sitcoms - inviting the boss over, having work people and kids over for parties. My generation doesn't do any of that.

I tried once and gave up. I was hosting 3 couples. One cancelled same day. Another, the wife was pregnant and didn't tell me so she couldn't eat most of the expensive food. They left early. The third left because the 2nd couple left early.

After that, I only did restaurant meals.

I haven't been invited to a boss or manager's house for an event/evening since around 1995. The hosts were Silent Generation and Boomers. To the manner born.

[Anonymous]

The richest live in Kalorama…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cosmos Club

Ha, ha, ha. You forgot to add …in 1975.

Right? The only Cosmos Club members I know are either really old or couldn't get into Metropolitan or Sulgrave.

Eh, at least w/CC you have to have impressive academic chops, not just A5 Japanese Kobe beef chops.

It's 2025 though, are academic chops still impressive?

Apparently not. Neither is expertise, intelligence or experience. Just ass kissing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if dinner parties died.

They are dead for Gen Xers in the lower reaches of the Upper Middle Class. Everyone meets at restaurants.

When I was a kid, my parents socialized like the old sitcoms - inviting the boss over, having work people and kids over for parties. My generation doesn't do any of that.

I tried once and gave up. I was hosting 3 couples. One cancelled same day. Another, the wife was pregnant and didn't tell me so she couldn't eat most of the expensive food. They left early. The third left because the 2nd couple left early.

After that, I only did restaurant meals.

I haven't been invited to a boss or manager's house for an event/evening since around 1995. The hosts were Silent Generation and Boomers. To the manner born.

My family still has dinner parties. Easier to deal with the kids that way. They just go up to bed and leave the grownups to talk.

[Anonymous]

There are still loads of these people in Chevy Chase (MD and DC) but most of them are now over 60. The younger generations haven't really clustered geographically in the same way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are still loads of these people in Chevy Chase (MD and DC) but most of them are now over 60. The younger generations haven't really clustered geographically in the same way.

Well, I mean, we've had a tougher real estate market to contend with.

[Anonymous]

This is happening but not in one specific neighborhood. I go to these all the time. Current version is more salon style, less sit-down dinner. Stuff like 20 people, drinks and heavy appetizers, and someone does a talk with Q&A in a living room. Sit down dinners tend to be at homes with staff, including embassy officials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Juleanna Glover is 15/20 years ago. She was never really part of that set but tried to ingratiate herself and make herself something. The real set doesn’t seek attention or self-promote.
We lived in Kalorama until recently, and there’s a very active social life with really interesting dinner parties, discussions, dinner celebrating book releases, etc. There are also lots of interesting events tying into various diplomats who live in the neighborhood.
If you’re looking more for the self-promoting, instagram set, there’s a lot more of that in Wesley Heights, Kent and Foxhall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if dinner parties died.

They are dead for Gen Xers in the lower reaches of the Upper Middle Class. Everyone meets at restaurants.

When I was a kid, my parents socialized like the old sitcoms - inviting the boss over, having work people and kids over for parties. My generation doesn't do any of that.

I tried once and gave up. I was hosting 3 couples. One cancelled same day. Another, the wife was pregnant and didn't tell me so she couldn't eat most of the expensive food. They left early. The third left because the 2nd couple left early.

After that, I only did restaurant meals.

I haven't been invited to a boss or manager's house for an event/evening since around 1995. The hosts were Silent Generation and Boomers. To the manner born.

Dinners parties for this gen-Xer died in the 1990s. Work life was so much nicer than...company softball games, company Christmas parties, company summer BBQs where you had relay races, like potato sack...sigh. I just retired and feel sorry for my kids who will never know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if dinner parties died.

They are dead for Gen Xers in the lower reaches of the Upper Middle Class. Everyone meets at restaurants.

When I was a kid, my parents socialized like the old sitcoms - inviting the boss over, having work people and kids over for parties. My generation doesn't do any of that.

I tried once and gave up. I was hosting 3 couples. One cancelled same day. Another, the wife was pregnant and didn't tell me so she couldn't eat most of the expensive food. They left early. The third left because the 2nd couple left early.

After that, I only did restaurant meals.

I haven't been invited to a boss or manager's house for an event/evening since around 1995. The hosts were Silent Generation and Boomers. To the manner born.

My boomer mother still does this but she hires a caterer. Definitely the way to go.