Today, the Post features our city’s burgeoning intellectual institutional base, which attracts the smartest folks from every corner of the globe to our “sausage factory for the opinions and ideas of the city’s internationalists” where “there can be nearly 200 … events on a given day …”
Even The New York Times has acknowledged this “egghead quotient,” in a piece by Anne E. Kornblut, written around the time the Atlantic closed up shop in Boston and high-tailed it to the Watergate. From the NYT:
Intellectual creativity and politics have grown ever more intertwined in the nation’s capital in the half-century since the last president from Massachusetts was in office, the result of a boom in the election industry, ongoing partisan warfare and the sheer size of government, among other things.
And the myriad institutions … From the Post:
Think tanks can be self-segregating, allowing hawks and doves to pick from a menu of moralities — and perks. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is generally recognized to have the best food. The Center for Strategic and International Studies is where the brainiest insiders hang out. The Heritage Foundation is more dogmatic; a session Friday was titled “Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture That’s Gone Stark Raving Mad.” The American Foreign Policy Council is seen as an old-age home for Cold War warriors.
DCist loves good food, especially if it’s free. We’ve heard that Carnagie serves the best food at events. So to the think tankers out there, which other intellectual institutions rank high in the quality of event food and drink options?
