The Society / Discretion
What is said at the table stays at the table.
Discretion is not an afterthought at the Society. It is the condition that makes the conversations worth having possible in the first place.
How It Works
Four ways discretion is kept.
No press, no publication
Gatherings are not covered, photographed for publication, or written up afterward. What happens at a Dinner, a Gala, or a Salon belongs to the people in the room, not to an audience outside it.
A closed guest list
Membership rolls and guest lists are not published or shared outside the Society. Members may introduce one another privately, but the Society itself does not broker introductions without consent.
Off-the-record by default
Salons in particular are convened for candor: a frank conversation on markets, culture, or policy only happens if everyone in the room trusts it will stay there. Nothing discussed is attributed, quoted, or repeated without the speaker’s permission.
A courtesy asked in return
The Society keeps its members’ confidence as a matter of principle, and it asks the same discipline of everyone who sits at its tables, members and guests alike. It is the one rule that makes every other freedom at the table possible.
A Simple Standard
Say what you would say to a friend, not what you would say to a reporter.
It is the standard every member is asked to hold, and the one the Society holds itself to in return.
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Discretion, in practice.
Gatherings
See how discretion shapes the Dinners, Galas, and Salons themselves, and which of them are closed even to most of the membership.
The Circle
The Society’s inner table observes an even closer discretion, closed-door Salons that are never announced and rarely acknowledged.
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