Tim Hwang and Rachel Reses are joined by Butterworth’s restauranteur Bart Hutchins and Hamilton Society and Ulysses co-founder Will O’Brien to chat about the intimate ties between politics, architecture, and social gathering. We cover: DC’s legacy of French-adjacent restaurants where politicians can see and be seen, why San Franciscans are gravitating to a formal debate society, whether culture is downstream of policy or vice versa, and whether the cure to male loneliness is a cig among friends.

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