Guests 9103 Guests
December 2009
- Jeff Bridges Actor
- Nada Bakri Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
- Cate Blanchett Actor
- David Brooks Former Columnist, The New York Times
- Eileen Claussen Founder, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- James Cameron Director
- Scott Cooper Writer; Director
- Lee Daniels Director
- David Denby Film Critic, The New Yorker
- Claire Danes Actor
- Harold Evans Author; Editor at Large, Reuters
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President, Turkey
- Zac Efron Actor
- David Fahrenthold Reporter, The Washington Post
- Tom Ford Fashion Designer; Director
- Dexter Filkins Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Maggie Gyllenhaal Actor
- Jeff Greenfield Guest Host
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- David Herszenhorn Journalist, The New York Times
- James Hansen Professor
- Richard Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Jimmie Johnson Race Car Driver; 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion
- Ezra Klein Editor in Chief, Vox Media
- John Kerry Secretary of State
- Richard Linklater Director
- Kati Marton Author
- Rebecca Miller Author; Screenwriter
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Stanley McChrystal General, U.S. Army (Ret); Author
- Christian McKay Actor
- Mike Mullen Admiral (Ret.); Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Rachel Maddow Television Host, MSNBC; Author; Political Commentator
- Robin Wright Penn Actor
- Steven Roberts Journalist; Author
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Jeffrey Sachs Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Senior U.N. Advisor
- A. O. Scott Guest Host
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- Anthony Shadid Journalist, The New York Times
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Simon Schama University Professor of History and Art History, Columbia University; Author
- John Sitaras Founder, Sitaras Fitness
- Liv Ullmann Director
- Robin Williams Comedian; Actor
November 2009
- Wes Anderson Director
- Ted Adelson Professor of Vision Science, MIT
- Pedro Almodovar Filmmaker
- Ken Auletta Contributor, The New Yorker
- Maziar Bahari Journalist
- Tim Burton Filmmaker
- David Bromwich Sterling Professor of English, Yale University
- Barton Biggs Hedge Fund Manager, Traxis Partners; Author
- Nicholas Burns Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Warren Buffett Chairman and CEO; Philanthropist
- Stephen P. Cohen Founder, President, Institute for Middle East Peace and Development
- Penelope Cruz Actor
- Hillary Clinton Former Presidential Candidate
- Ken Duberstein Former White House Chief of Staff; C.E.O., The Duberstein Group
- Stephen Dubner Author; Journalist
- Elizabeth Economy Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Barbara Ehrenreich Journalist; Author
- Akiva Eldar Chief Political Columnist, Ha'aretz; Author
- Mohamed ElBaradei Nobel Laureate; Author
- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Archbishop of Constantinople; Primus Inter Pares
- Thomas Friedman Columnist, Author
- James Fallows National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Niall Ferguson Historian, Author
- Joseph Kearns Goodwin Former U.S. Army Captain
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Les Gelb President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
- Carlos Ghosn Chairman, C.E.O., Renault-Nissan Alliance; Chairman, Mitsubishi Motors
- Melinda Gates Co-Chair, The Gates Foundation
- Malcolm Gladwell Author
- John Grisham Author
- Al Gore Former Vice President of the US
- Jenny He Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Modern Art
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Hendrik Hertzberg Journalist, The New Yorker
- John Harris Editor in Chief, Politico
- Bonnie Hammer President, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment
- Nancy Kanwisher Professor, MIT
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Jon Krakauer Journalist; Author
- Nicholas Kristof Journalist; Author
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- Peter Kaplan Former Editor, The New York Observer
- James Lilley Former U.S. Ambassador to China
- Steven Levitt Author; Economist
- Ron Magliozzi Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art
- J. Anthony Movshon Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, New York University
- Edward Norton Actor
- Peter Orszag Chairman, Citigroup’s Public Sector Division
- John Podesta Former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
- Rejendra Roy Chief Film Curator, Museum of Modern Art
- Eugene Rogan Faculty Fellow and Lecturer, Oxford University; Author
- Eric Ripert Author; Chef and Co-Owner, Le Bernardin
- Amy Rice Filmmaker
- Kenneth Rogoff Professor, Harvard University
- Pawan Sinha Associate Professor of Neuroscience, MIT
- Alicia Sams Filmmaker
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- John Woo Director
- Sheryl WuDunn Journalist; Author
- Roy Williams Basketball Coach, University of North Carolina
- Jeff Zeleny Journalist, The New York Times
October 2009
- Cornelia Bargmann Advisory Board Co-Chair, Obama's Brain Initiative
- Joel Coen Director
- Ethan Coen Director
- Gerald Fischbach Columbia University; Simons Foundation Autism Project
- Carrie Fisher Actor; Author
- Alison Gopnik Director of the Cognitive Development Lab, UC Berkeley; Author
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Richard Kind Actor
- J. Anthony Movshon Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, New York University
- Brian Ross Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
- David Rohde Investigative Journalist, Reuters
- Stephen Roach Investor, Morgan Stanley
- John Searle Philosopher; Professor, UC Berkeley
- Michael Stuhlbarg Actor
- Sam Tanenhaus Editor, The New York Times Book Review
- James Watson Nobel Laureate; Molecular Biologist; Geneticist; Zoologist
- Jann Wenner Founder, Rolling Stone