Guests 9085 Guests
September 2009
- Marc Andreessen Co-Founder, Netscape
- David Brooks Columnist; Author
- Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Author; Former Domestic Affairs Advisor
- E. L. Doctorow Novelist
- Kathy Dahlkemper Representative, (D) Pennsylvania
- Robert Gates Former Director, CIA
- Giancarlo Giammetti Co-Founder, Valentino
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- William Gates, Sr. Co-Chair, The Gates Foundation; Author
- Daniel Hesse C.E.O., Sprint Nextel
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Werner Herzog Filmmaker
- Raymond Kelly Former Commissioner, NYPD
- Hamid Karzai President of Afghanistan
- Rich Lowry Editor, National Review; Contributor, Fox News
- Thaddeus McCotter Representative, (R) Michigan
- Mike Mullen Admiral (Ret.); Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Joseph O'Neill Author
- John Podesta Former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
- Eric Schmidt Executive Chairman, Alphabet
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- Jill Bolte Taylor Author; Neuroscientist
- Gay Talese Author; Journalist, The New York Times
- Matt Tyrnauer Director
- Valentino Fashion Designer
- Anthony Weiner Representative, (D) New York
- Jimmy Wales Co-Founder, Wikipedia
- Anthony Zinni General (Ret.), United States Marine Corps; Author
- Asif Ali Zardari President of Pakistan
August 2009
- Ferran Adrià Chef, elBulli
- José Andrés Chef, elBulli
- Kurt Andersen Author; Radio Host, Studio 360
- Leon Botstein President, Bard College
- Peter Balakian Writer; Academic
- Sophie Barthes Filmmaker
- George Clooney Actor
- Tom Colicchio Chef; Restaurateur; Head Judge, "Top Chef"
- David Chang Chef; Restaurateur
- Jim Collins Author
- Steven Cook Senior Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations
- Joe Cirincione President, The Ploughshares Fund
- Kent Conrad Senator, (D) North Dakota
- Leonardo DiCaprio Actor
- Ross Douthat Journalist, The New York Times
- Michele Dune Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Michele Dunne Analyst, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- Nora Ephron Writer, Playwright
- David Fincher Director
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Paul Giamatti Actor
- Charles Gwathmey Architect
- Michael Gordon Chief Military Correspondent, The New York Times
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Don Hewitt Journalist, Executive Producer, "60 Minutes"
- Yusuf Islam Singer-songwriter
- Ben Kingsley Actor
- Wadah Khanfar Director General, Al Jazeera Network
- Alex Karp C.E.O., Palantir
- Frederick Kagan Chair and Director of the Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute
- Glenn Kessler Diplomatic Correspondent, The Washington Post
- Jason Kilar C.E.O., Hulu
- Peter Levene Chairman, Lloyd's of London
- Jon Meacham Historian, Author
- Helen Mirren Actor
- Hosni Mubarak President, Arab Republic of Egypt
- Hugh Masekela Jazz Musician
- Elon Musk Co-founder and C.E.O., Tesla Motors
- Sari Nusseibeh President, Al-Quds University
- Frances Osborne Author
- Brad Pitt Actor
- Dolly Parton Singer; Songwriter
- Mickey Rourke Actor
- Alissa Rubin Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Evans Revere President, The Korea Society
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Joe Scarborough Host, "Morning Joe"
- Julian Schnabel Director; Artist
- Meryl Streep Actor
- Quentin Tarantino Director
- Harold Varmus President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Kate Winslet Actor
- Evan Williams Entrepreneur; Co-Founder, Twitter
- Robert Wright Author
- Zhou Wenzhong Former Chinese ambassador to the U.S.; Secretary-General, Boao Forum for Asia
- Colson Whitehead Author
- Neil Young Singer-Songwriter
- Anthony Zinni General (Ret.), United States Marine Corps; Author
July 2009
- Judd Apatow Director
- Sam Altman Founder and C.E.O., Loopt
- Michael Arrington Editor, TechCrunch
- Robert Allbritton Founder, Capitol News Company
- Chris Anderson Curator, TED Talks
- Denis Cortese President and C.E.O., Mayo Clinic
- Howard Dean Former Governor, (D) Vermont
- Ross Douthat Journalist, The New York Times
- Andrew Exum Fellow, Center for a New American Security
- Bill Frist Former Senate Majority Leader (R)
- Floyd Flake Reverend, Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral
- John Harris Editor in Chief, Politico
- Christopher Hill Former Ambassador to South Korea
- Armando Iannucci Satirist; Television Director
- Raina Kelley Journalist, Newsweek
- Jeffrey Kluger Journalist, Time Magazine
- Steven Levy Editor in Chief, Backchannel
- Brigitte Lacombe Photographer
- Janet Napolitano Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Peter Orszag Chairman, Citigroup’s Public Sector Division
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- Adam Sandler Actor
- Robert Shiller Economist, Yale University
- Erick Schonfeld Editor, TechCrunch
- Brent Scowcroft Former National Security Advisor
- Ben Smith Senior Political Reporter, Politico
- Jim VandeHei Executive Editor, Politico; Co-Founder, Politico
- Nick Wingfield Journalist, The Wall Street Journal