Guests 9103 Guests
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
- 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
- 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
- Nora Ephron Writer, Playwright
- 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
- Dolly Parton Musician, Songwriter
- Mickey Rourke Actor
- Alissa Rubin Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Evans Revere President, The Korea Society
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Julian Schnabel Director; Artist
- Meryl Streep Actor
- Joe Scarborough Host, "Morning Joe"
- Quentin Tarantino Director
- Harold Varmus Former Director, NIH; Former Director, National Cancer Institute
- 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
- Roger Altman Founder, Evercore
- Dennis Berman Business Editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Susan Low Bloch Constitutional Law Professor, Georgetown University
- Denis Cortese President and C.E.O., Mayo Clinic
- Thomas Campbell Director and C.E.O., Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Howard Dean Former Governor, (D) Vermont
- Ross Douthat Journalist, The New York Times
- Walter Dellinger Attorney; Partner, O'Melveny and Myers LLP
- 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
- Bradley Graham Author
- Tom Goldstein Co-Founder, Scotusblog.com; Attorney, Akin Gump LLP
- John Harris Editor in Chief, Politico
- Christopher Hill Former Ambassador to South Korea
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Alistair Horne Historian; Author
- Armando Iannucci Satirist; Television Director
- Benjamin Jealous President and C.E.O., NAACP
- Michael Jackson Singer-Songwriter; Record Producer; Dancer
- Raina Kelley Journalist, Newsweek
- Jeffrey Kluger Journalist, Time Magazine
- Mohsen Kadivar Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University
- Steven Levy Editor in Chief, Backchannel
- Brigitte Lacombe Photographer
- Richard Levin C.E.O., Coursera; Former President, Yale University
- Jane Mayer Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Janet Napolitano Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Floyd Norris Chief Financial Correspondent, The New York Times
- Lynn Nottage Playwright
- Peter Orszag Chairman, Citigroup’s Public Sector Division
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- V. S. Ramachandran Director fo the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego; Neurologist
- Adam Sandler Actor
- Robert Shiller Economist, Yale University
- Erick Schonfeld Editor, TechCrunch
- Brent Scowcroft Former National Security Advisor
- Ben Smith Senior Political Reporter, Politico
- Scott Shane Journalist, The New York Times
- Nina Totenberg Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR
- Gary Tinterow Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Jim VandeHei Executive Editor, Politico; Co-Founder, Politico
- Nick Wingfield Journalist, The Wall Street Journal
- Bob Woodward Associate Editor, The Washington Post
- Kate Whoriskey Director