Guests 9103 Guests
February 2007
- Martin Amis Author
- David Brooks Former Columnist, The New York Times
- E.J. Dionne Columnist, The Washington Post
- Josh Groban Actor; Singer
- Kay Bailey Hutchison Senator, (R) Texas; Author
- John Mellencamp Singer-Songwriter
- Norman Mailer Author
- Michael Oppenheimer Director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State University
- Rob Portman Senator, (R) Ohio
- Jack Reed Senator, (D) Rhode Island; Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee
- William Rhoden Columnist, The New York Times
- Tom Stoppard Playwright; Author; Screenwriter
- Chuck Schumer Senator, (D) New York
- Serena Williams Professional Tennis Player
January 2007
- Margaret Atwood Author
- Anthony Atala Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
- Jon Robin Baitz Playwright; Screenwriter
- Cate Blanchett Actor
- John F. Burns London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Andrew Bacevich Retired Colonel, U.S. Army
- Juliette Binoche Actor
- Etienne-Emile Baulieu Former President, French Academy of Sciences
- Michael Beschloss Historian; Author
- Douglas Brinkley Historian
- Octavia Butler Writer
- Ed Bradley Journalist; Anchor, 60 Minutes
- Penelope Cruz Actor
- Charlie Cook Editor, The Cook Political Report
- J. D. Crouch Deputy National Security Adviser
- Bill Condon Director
- James Clyburn Representative, (D) South Carolina
- Tom DeFrank Journalist, New York Daily News
- Ken Duberstein Former White House Chief of Staff; C.E.O., The Duberstein Group
- Michael Duffy Editorial Director, TIME
- Clint Eastwood Director
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- Todd Field Director; Actor
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Host, "Finding Your Roots" on PBS; Professor, Harvard University
- Donny George Former Director, Iraqi National Museum; Archeologist
- Atul Gawande Surgeon; Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Adam Gopnik Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- David Gonzales Journalist, The New York Times
- Michael Gordon Chief Military Correspondent, The New York Times
- John Kenneth Galbraith Economist
- Mark Halperin Editor-in-Chief, 2WAY
- Alistair Horne Historian; Author
- Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Dale Irvin Dean and Professor, New York Theological Seminary; Reverend
- David Ignatius Foreign Affairs Columnist
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- William Kristol Editor, The Weekly Standard
- Jack Keane Former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
- Eric Lander Professor of Biology, M.I.T.; Director, Broad Institute
- Helen Mirren Actor
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Anthony Minghella Director
- Sam Mendes Director
- Zubin Mehta Musical Director, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
- Bill Nighy Actor
- Paul Nurse President, U.K. Centre for Research and Innovation; Former President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize Laureate
- Peter O'Toole Actor
- Wilson Pickett Musician
- Jack Palance Actor
- Gordon Parks Photographer; Musician; Writer; Director
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Robert Rubin Former Secretary of the Treasury
- Thomas Ricks Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
- John Rich Physician; MacArthur Fellow
- Richard Rodriguez Journalist; Author
- Louis Rukeyser Financial Journalist; Television Host, Wall Street Week
- William Rubin Art Historian; Former Curator and Director, Painting and Sculpture Department, Museum of Modern Art
- Nicolas Sarkozy Interior Minister, France; UMP Candidate for the French Presidency
- Martin Scorsese Director
- George Saunders Author
- Anna Schuleit Artist; MacArthur Fellow
- Howard Schultz C.E.O., Starbucks
- Kiefer Sutherland Actor
- Eric Steel Filmmaker
- Hilary Swank Actress
- Calvin Trillin Author; Contributor, The New Yorker
- Ed Viesturs Mountain Climber; Author
- Craig Venter Founder and C.E.O., Synthetic Genomes
- Steve Wozniak Co-Founder, Apple
- Forest Whitaker Actor
- Kate Winslet Actor
- Patricia Williams Law Professor, Columbia University
- Robin Wright Joint Fellow, U.S. Institute for Peace
- James Watson Nobel Laureate; Molecular Biologist; Geneticist; Zoologist
- Shelley Winters Actor
- Wendy Wasserstein Playwright
- Fareed Zakaria Columnist, Author
- Guillermo del Toro Film Director; Author
December 2006
- Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State
- Ken Auletta Contributor, The New Yorker
- Craig Barrett Chairman, Intel
- Cate Blanchett Actor
- Zbigniew Brzezinski Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Former National Security Advisor
- George Clooney Actor
- Alfonso Cuarón Filmmaker
- John Doerr Venture Capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
- Matt Damon Actor
- Robert De Niro Actor
- Lou Dobbs TV Host; Author
- Richard Eyre Director
- Clint Eastwood Director
- Ahmet Ertegun Founding Chairman, Atlantic Records
- Charles Giancarlo Senior Vice-President and Chief Development Officer, Cisco
- Alejandro González Iñárritu Filmmaker
- Reed Hastings Co-founder and C.E.O., Netflix
- Brian Halla Chairman, National Semiconductor
- Angelina Jolie Actor; Filmmaker
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- Scott McNealy Chairman and Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems
- Edward Norton Actor
- Anthony O'Reilly Former Chairman, Former C.E.O., H.J. Heinz
- Clive Owen Actor
- Jancis Robinson Wine Columnist, The Financial Times
- Lisa Randall Professor, Harvard University; Theoretical Physicist
- K. R. Sridhar Co-Founder and C.E.O., Bloom Energy
- Sandy Weill Former Chairman and C.E.O., Citigroup
- E. O. Wilson Author
- Jerry Yang Chairman and Co-Founder, Yahoo
- Guillermo del Toro Film Director; Author