Guests 9085 Guests
January 2010
- Richard Barrett Coordinator, Al Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations
- Steve Coll Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Dean, Columbia School of Journalism
- Henry Crumpton Former Deputy Director of Counterterrorism, C.I.A.; Chairman and C.E.O., Crumpton Group
- Merce Cunningham Choreographer; Dancer
- Walter Cronkite News Anchor
- Marilyn French Author
- John Hope Franklin Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
- Gregory Johnsen Author; Writer at Large, Buzzfeed
- Ted Kennedy Senator, (D) Massachusetts
- Frank McCourt Author
- Robert McNamara Former Secretary of Defense
- Ed McMahon Comedian
- Natasha Richardson Actor
- Eric Schmitt Journalist, The New York Times
- John Updike Author
December 2009
- Ken Auletta Contributor, The New Yorker
- Michael Bennett Golf Instructor
- Robert Brown Professor of Neurology, University of Massachusetts
- Jeff Bridges Actor
- Nada Bakri Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
- Cate Blanchett Actor
- David Brooks Columnist; Author
- Eileen Claussen Founder, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- James Cameron Director
- Scott Cooper Writer; Director
- Lee Daniels Director
- David Denby Film Critic, The New Yorker
- Claire Danes Actor
- Harold Evans Author; Editor at Large, Reuters
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President, Turkey
- Zac Efron Actor
- David Fahrenthold Reporter, The Washington Post
- Tom Ford Fashion Designer; Director
- Dexter Filkins Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Paul Goldberger Biographer; Architectural Critic, Vanity Fair
- Maggie Gyllenhaal Actor
- Jeff Greenfield Guest Host
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- David Herszenhorn Journalist, The New York Times
- James Hansen Professor
- Richard Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Walter Isaacson Author, Editor
- Tom Jessell Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
- Jimmie Johnson Race Car Driver; 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion
- Jules Kroll Chairman and Founder, K2 Global Partners
- Mel Karmazin C.E.O., Sirius XM Radio
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- John Krakauer Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Columbia University
- Ezra Klein Editor in Chief, Vox Media
- John Kerry Secretary of State
- Richard Linklater Director
- Carey Mulligan Actor
- Kati Marton Author
- Rebecca Miller Author; Screenwriter
- Jon Meacham Historian, Author
- Stanley McChrystal General, U.S. Army (Ret); Author
- Christian McKay Actor
- Mike Mullen Admiral (Ret.); Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Rachel Maddow Television Host, MSNBC; Author; Political Commentator
- Mark Pincus Founder and C.E.O., Zynga
- Orhan Pamuk Author
- Andy Plummer Golf Instructor
- Robin Wright Penn Actor
- Jason Reitman Director; Producer
- Ivan Reitman Director; Producer
- Steven Roberts Journalist; Author
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Michael Specter Columnist, The New Yorker; Author
- Annabelle Selldorf Principal Architect, Selldorf Architects
- Neil Sheehan Historian; Author
- William Shawcross Journalist; Author
- Jeffrey Sachs Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Senior U.N. Advisor
- A. O. Scott Guest Host
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- Anthony Shadid Journalist, The New York Times
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Simon Schama University Professor of History and Art History, Columbia University; Author
- John Sitaras Founder, Sitaras Fitness
- Liv Ullmann Director
- Gore Vidal Essayist; Author
- Daniel Wolpert Neuroscientist; Professor, University of Cambridge
- Robin Williams Comedian; Actor
November 2009
- Wes Anderson Director
- Ted Adelson Professor of Vision Science, MIT
- Pedro Almodovar Filmmaker
- Maziar Bahari Journalist
- Tim Burton Filmmaker
- David Bromwich Sterling Professor of English, Yale University
- Barton Biggs Hedge Fund Manager, Traxis Partners; Author
- Nicholas Burns Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Warren Buffett Chairman and CEO; Philanthropist
- Stephen P. Cohen Founder, President, Institute for Middle East Peace and Development
- Penelope Cruz Actor
- Ken Duberstein Former White House Chief of Staff; C.E.O., The Duberstein Group
- Stephen Dubner Author; Journalist
- Elizabeth Economy Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Barbara Ehrenreich Journalist; Author
- Thomas Friedman Columnist, Author
- James Fallows National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Joseph Kearns Goodwin Former U.S. Army Captain
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Les Gelb President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
- Carlos Ghosn Chairman, C.E.O., Renault-Nissan Alliance; Chairman, Mitsubishi Motors
- Melinda Gates Co-Chair, The Gates Foundation
- Malcolm Gladwell Author
- Jenny He Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Modern Art
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Hendrik Hertzberg Journalist, The New Yorker
- John Harris Editor in Chief, Politico
- Bonnie Hammer President, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment
- Nancy Kanwisher Professor, MIT
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Jon Krakauer Journalist; Author
- Nicholas Kristof Journalist; Author
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- James Lilley Former U.S. Ambassador to China
- Steven Levitt Author; Economist
- Ron Magliozzi Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art
- J. Anthony Movshon Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, New York University
- Edward Norton Actor
- John Podesta Former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
- Rejendra Roy Chief Film Curator, Museum of Modern Art
- Eugene Rogan Faculty Fellow and Lecturer, Oxford University; Author
- Eric Ripert Author; Chef and Co-Owner, Le Bernardin
- Amy Rice Filmmaker
- Kenneth Rogoff Professor, Harvard University
- Pawan Sinha Associate Professor of Neuroscience, MIT
- Alicia Sams Filmmaker
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- John Woo Director
- Sheryl WuDunn Journalist; Author
- Roy Williams Basketball Coach, University of North Carolina
- Jeff Zeleny Journalist, The New York Times