Guests 9102 Guests
December 2011
- Jill Abramson Executive Editor, The New York Times
- Kurt Andersen Author; Radio Host, Studio 360
- Mike Allen Co-Founder, Axios
- David Brooks Columnist, Author
- Jeffrey Bader Senior Fellow of International Diplomacy, The Brookings Institution
- Michael Boyd Director, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Cameron Crowe Film Director
- Daniel Craig Actor
- Patricia Churchland Professor, U.C. San Diego; Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Lee Child Novelist
- Matt Damon Actor
- Viola Davis Actor
- Matthew Dowd Chief Political Analyst, ABC News
- Stanislas Dehaene Cognitive Neuroscientist; Chair of Experimental Psychology, College de France
- Ralph Fiennes Actor
- Thomas Friedman Columnist, Author
- David Fincher Director
- Niall Ferguson Historian, Author
- Mary Gabriel Author
- Christopher Hill Former Ambassador to South Korea
- Václav Havel Former President, Czech Republic
- Christopher Hitchens Author
- John Hurt Actor
- Jonah Hill Actor
- Angelina Jolie Actor; Filmmaker
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Jude Law Actor
- David Leonhardt Columnist, The New York Times
- Betty Liu Guest Host
- Bernard-Henri Lévy Philosopher
- John Loengard Photographer
- John Lasseter Director, Pixar Animation Studios
- Zana Marjanovic Actor
- Rooney Mara Actor
- Simon Sebag Montefiore Author
- Bennett Miller Director
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Christopher Plummer Actor
- Robin Wright Penn Actor
- Brad Pitt Actor
- Lisa Randall Professor, Harvard University; Theoretical Physicist
- Mitt Romney Former Governor of Massachusetts; Presidential Candidate
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- Robert Rubin Former Secretary of the Treasury
- Ali Soufan Former FBI Agent; Author
- Gilad Sharon Author
- Rade Serbedzija Actor
- Jeffrey Sanger Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Stellan Skarsgard Actor
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- Nicholas Schiff Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Gillian Tett Managing Editor, Financial Times
- Evan Thomas Author
- Clarissa Ward Senior International Correspondent, CNN
- Timothy Wilson Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
- Zhang Xin C.E.O., Soho China
November 2011
- Elliot Ackerman C.O.O., Americans Elect
- Tim Arango Baghdad Correspondent, The New York Times
- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Founder, Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund; Author
- Marc Benioff Chairman and C.E.O., Salesforce.com
- Khalil Byrd C.E.O., Americans Elect
- Kenneth Branagh Director; Actor
- David Brooks Columnist, Author
- Taylor Branch Author
- Amanda Burden Chair, New York City Planning Commission
- Ehud Barak Former Prime Minister, Israel
- Michael Boyd Director, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University
- Ian Bremmer President, Eurasia Group
- Cornelia Bargmann Advisory Board Co-Chair, Obama's Brain Initiative
- Tom Brokaw Former Anchor, NBC Nightly News
- Simon Curtis Film Director
- Jim Collins Author
- Sandra Dzankovic Friend of Ted Forstmann
- Joshua David Co-Founder, Friends of the High Line
- Joan Didion Author
- Oskar Eustis Artistic Director, The Public Theater
- Siya Forstmann Son of Ted Forstmann
- Everest Forstmann Son of Ted Forstmann
- Gerald Fischbach Columbia University; Simons Foundation Autism Project
- Barbara Gaines Director, The Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Stephen Greenblatt Literary Critic; Author
- John Heilemann National Affairs Analyst, NBC News
- Robert Hammond Producer
- Jack Healy Correspondent, The New York Times
- Mark Halperin Editor-in-Chief, 2WAY
- Maggie Haberman White House Correspondent, The New York Times; Political Analyst, CNN
- Thomas Insel Director, National Institute of Mental Health
- James L. Jones Founder, Jones Group International; Former National Security Advisor; Retired Marine General
- Diane Keaton Actor
- David Kastan Professor, Yale University
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Rahmi Koç Honorary Chairman, Koç Holding
- Andrew Lack C.E.O., Bloomberg Media Group
- Mohammad-Javad Larijani Head of Iran's Human Rights Council
- Lawrence Lessig Professor, Harvard University
- Robert Lutz Former General Motors Executive
- John Malkovich Actor
- Elon Musk Co-founder and C.E.O., Tesla Motors
- Joe Nocera Columnist, Bloomberg View
- Alexander Payne Director
- Mattathias Schwartz Contributor, The New Yorker
- Mattias Schwarts Contributor, The New Yorker
- Dave Stockton Former Professional Golfer
- Thom Shanker Journalist, The New York Times
- Eric Schmitt Journalist, The New York Times
- Nick Schifrin Special Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
- Naguib Sawiris Chairman, Orascom Telecom
- George Shultz Former Secretary of State
- Dov Seidman Founder and C.E.O., LRN
- Michael Schmidt Reporter, The New York Times
- Sheryl Sandberg C.O.O., Facebook
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- Laurence Tribe Harvard Law Professor
- Gillian Tett Managing Editor, Financial Times
- Calvin Trillin Author; Contributor, The New Yorker
- Jing Ulrich Global Markets Chairman, China, J.P. Morgan
- Antonio Villaraigosa Mayor of Los Angeles
- Ezra Vogel Author; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
- Nora Volkow Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
- Michelle Williams Actor
- Jon Wertheim Executive Editor, Sports Illustrated; Commentator, Tennis Channel
- Sam Waterston Actor
- Mark Zuckerberg Founder, C.E.O, Facebook
- Diane von Furstenberg Fashion Designer