Guests 9103 Guests
December 2008
- Severine Autesserre Professor, Barnard College
- Suliman Baldo Fellow, International Center for Transitional Justice
- Nicholas Burns Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Kevin Chilton General, U.S. Airforce; Commander, USSTRATCOM
- Steve Coll Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Dean, Columbia School of Journalism
- Anthony Gambino Former Mission Director in Congo, USAID
- Ron Howard Film Director
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Richard Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Husain Haqqani Author; Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S.
- Martin Indyk Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
- Gilbert Kaplan Conductor
- Michael Kinsley Founder, Slate Magazine
- Frank Langella Actor
- Yo-Yo Ma Cellist; Artistic Director, Silk Road Project
- 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
- Anjali Pollack Interior Designer, Anjali Pollack Designs
- Michael Pollack Partner, Glenhill Capital
- Nassim Taleb Author
- James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
- E. O. Wilson Author
- Fareed Zakaria Columnist, Author
November 2008
- Jonathan Alter Analyst, MSNBC; Columnist, The Daily Beast
- Bill Ackman Founder and C.E.O., Pershing Square Capital Management
- Josh Brolin Actor
- Alan Brinkley Historian; Professor, Columbia Univeristy
- Michael Beschloss Historian; Author
- James Billington Librarian of Congress
- Matt Bai National Political Columnist, Yahoo News
- David Cole Chairman Emeritus, Center for Automotive Research
- Michael Crichton Author
- James Clyburn Representative, (D) South Carolina
- Charlie Cook Editor, The Cook Political Report
- Chris Dodd Former Senator
- Mike D'Antoni Head Coach, New York Knicks
- Ari Emanuel Founder, The Endeavor Agency
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- Ezekiel Emanuel Oncologist; Bioethicist; Chair of the Department of Bioethics, NIH
- Marian Wright Edelman President and Founder, Children's Defense Fund
- Barney Frank Fmr. Representative, (D) Massachusetts
- Eric Foner Author; Historian; Professor, Columbia University
- Richard Griffiths Actor
- Antonio Gotto, Jr. Dean, Weill Medical College, Cornell
- Mitchell Gold Founder, Faith in America; Author
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Mark Halperin Editor-in-Chief, 2WAY
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Harold Ickes Democratic Strategist; President, Catalist
- Magic Johnson Former NBA Player; Entrepreneur; Author
- Vernon Jordan Lawyer; Civil Rights Activist
- Steve Kroft Correspondent, "60 Minutes"
- Jodi Kantor Journalist, The New York Times
- Baz Luhrmann Filmmaker; Writer; Director
- Lawrence Lessig Professor, Harvard University
- Bernard-Henri Lévy Philosopher
- Seth Lipsky Founding Editor, The New York Sun
- Lori Mosca Doctor, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University
- Sebastian Mallaby Author; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
- Peter Mansoor Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.); Professor of Military History, Ohio State University
- Charles Maxwell Energy Analyst, Weeden & Co.
- Toni Morrison Author
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Nicholas Negroponte Chairman, One Laptop Per Child; Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory
- Floyd Norris Chief Financial Correspondent, The New York Times
- Adam Nagourney Journalist, The New York Times
- Charles Ogletree Professor, Harvard Law School
- Sean Penn Actor; Writer
- Vikram Pandit C.E.O., Citigroup
- Steven Pearlstein Columnist, The Washington Post
- Orlando Patterson Professor, Harvard University
- Dick Polman Journalist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Daniel Radcliffe Actor
- Paul Ridker Doctor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- Kay Ryan U.S. Poet Laureate
- Kiefer Sutherland Actor
- Richard Shelby Senator, (R) Alabama
- Andrew Ross Sorkin Guest Host
- Ben Silverman Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment; Co-Chairman, Universal Media Studios
- Amity Shlaes Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Columnist, Bloomberg News
- Jeffrey Sachs Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Senior U.N. Advisor
- Connie Schultz Journalist, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- Evan Thomas Author
- John Updike Author
- Gus Van Sant Director
- Daniel Yergin Author; Vice Chairman, IHS
- Jeff Zeleny Journalist, The New York Times
October 2008
- Fred Armisen Co-Creator, Actor, "Documentary Now!"
- David Brooks Former Columnist, The New York Times
- Tom Brokaw Former Anchor, NBC Nightly News
- Matt Bai National Political Columnist, Yahoo News
- Charlie Cook Editor, The Cook Political Report
- James Downey Writer, Saturday Night Live
- Ted Forstmann Chairman & C.E.O., IMG
- Peter Forbes Actor
- Will Graham Executive Producer, Onion News Network
- Alan "Ace" Greenberg Chairman, Executive Committee, The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc
- Darrell Hammond Writer, Actor, Saturday Night Live
- Carol Kolb Head Writer, Onion News Network
- Joe Klein Political Columnist, Time
- Paul Krugman Nobel Laureate; Journalist
- Bob Mankoff Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker
- Lorne Michaels Producer
- Seth Meyers Guest Host
- Michael Milken Chairman, Milken Institute
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Joe Randazzo Editor in Chief, The Onion
- Jim Rutenberg Media Columnist, The New York Times
- Chuck Schumer Senator, (D) New York
- Nate Silver Founder, FiveThirtyEight.com
- Richard Steadman Orthopedic Surgeon, Steadman-Hawkins Clinic
- David Smick Chairman and C.E.O., Johnson Smick International; Author
- John Tiffany Director
- Muhammad Yunus Founder, Grameen Bank; 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner