Guests 9103 Guests
February 2009
January 2009
- David Axelrod Guest Host
- Michael Arrington Editor, TechCrunch
- Mitch Albom Sportswriter; Author
- Leo Apotheker Co-C.E.O., SAP AG
- Matt Bai National Political Columnist, Yahoo News
- Aluf Benn Editor in Chief, Haaretz
- Jimmy Carter President, United States of America
- James Clyburn Representative, (D) South Carolina
- Roger Cohen Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
- Daniel Craig Actor
- Benicio Del Toro Actor
- David Denby Film Critic, The New Yorker
- Fredric Dicker Journalist, The New York Post
- Robert Draper Contributor, The New York Times Magazine
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- Martin Feldstein Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Thomas Friedman Columnist, Author
- James Fallows National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- John Grisham Author
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Barton Gellman Reporter, The Washington Post
- Lee Hamilton President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- David Ignatius Foreign Affairs Columnist
- Martin Indyk Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
- Judith Jones Senior Editor, Alfred A. Knopf
- Jimmie Johnson Race Car Driver; 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion
- Vernon Jordan Lawyer; Civil Rights Activist
- Jack Keane Former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
- Katty Kay Anchor, BBC World News America
- Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University; Author
- David Leonhardt Columnist, The New York Times
- Frank Langella Actor
- Mark Lowenthal President, The Intelligence and Security Academy
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- David Makovsky Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- John McLaughlin Former Deputy Director, CIA
- Mike McConnell Senior Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton; Admiral (Ret.), U.S. Navy
- Andrea Mitchell Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
- Andrew McAfee Principal Research Scientist; MIT
- Sam Mendes Director
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- Chuck Schumer Senator, (D) New York
- A. O. Scott Guest Host
- David Swensen Chief Investment Officer, Yale University; Author
- Lee Scott President and C.E.O., Walmart
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Liev Schreiber Actor
- Sheryl Gay Stolberg Journalist, The New York Times
- Bob Simon Correspondent, CBS News
- Joseph Stiglitz Professor, Columbia University; Nobel Laureate; Author
- Helen Suzman Former Member of the South African Parliament
- Bryan Singer Director
- Sam Tanenhaus Editor, The New York Times Book Review
- Scout Tufankjian Photographer
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- John Updike Author
- Jack Welch Founder, Jack Welch Management Institute; Former Chairman and C.E.O., GE; Author
- Leon Wieseltier Former Editor, The New Republic
- Edward Zwick Director
- Ghaith al-Omari Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine
December 2008
- Gerald Arpino Dancer; Choreographer
- Amy Adams Actor
- William F. Buckley, Jr. Journalist; Author
- Daniel Barenboim Pianist; Conductor
- Cherie Blair Lawyer; Author
- Geoff Colvin Author; Editor, Fortune Magazine
- Elliott Carter Composer
- Leonardo DiCaprio Actor
- Stephen Daldry Director
- Viola Davis Actor
- Chuck Fruit Former Chief Marketing Officer, Coca-Cola
- Anthony Fauci Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- David Fincher Director
- Thomas Friedman Columnist, Author
- Robert Gottlieb Former Editor, The New Yorker
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- Malcolm Gladwell Author
- Annette Gordon-Reed Author; Historian
- Robert Gates Former Director, CIA
- David Ho Director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
- Dustin Hoffman Actor
- David Hare Author; Playwright
- David Herszenhorn Journalist, The New York Times
- Philip Seymour Hoffman Actor
- Ron Howard Film Director
- Quincy Jones Producer; Composer
- Ben Kingsley Actor
- David Kross Actor
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- Heath Ledger Actor
- Alain Lefevre Pianist, Composer
- James Levine Conductor, Music Director, Metropolitan Opera
- Frank Langella Actor
- Bernie Mac Actor
- David Miliband President, International Rescue Committee
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Paul Newman Actor
- Michael Novacek Vice President, Provost of Science, The American Museum of Natural History
- Paul Nurse President, U.K. Centre for Research and Innovation; Former President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize Laureate
- Sydney Pollack Director
- Brad Pitt Actor
- Michael Porter Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness
- Robert Rauschenberg Painter
- Tom Ridge Former Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; Former Governor, (R) Pennsylvania
- Bernhard Schlink Author
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- Meryl Streep Actor
- John Patrick Shanley Writer; Director
- David Stern Commissioner, National Basketball Association
- Studs Terkel Journalist; Radio Talk Show Host
- Calvin Trillin Author; Contributor, The New Yorker
- David Foster Wallace Author
- Drew Westen Psychology Professor, Emory University
- Kate Winslet Actor
- E. O. Wilson Author
- Jeff Zeleny Journalist, The New York Times