Guests 9102 Guests
December 2009
- David Brooks Columnist, Author
- Claire Danes Actor
- Zac Efron Actor
- Dexter Filkins Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Jeff Greenfield Guest Host
- Richard Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Jimmie Johnson Race Car Driver; 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion
- John Kerry Secretary of State
- Richard Linklater Director
- Christian McKay Actor
- Mike Mullen Admiral (Ret.); Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Rachel Maddow Television Host, MSNBC; Author; Political Commentator
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- John Sitaras Founder, Sitaras Fitness
- Robin Williams Comedian; Actor
November 2009
- Wes Anderson Director
- Ted Adelson Professor of Vision Science, MIT
- Pedro Almodovar Filmmaker
- Ken Auletta Contributor, The New Yorker
- 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
- Hillary Clinton Former Presidential Candidate
- 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
- Akiva Eldar Chief Political Columnist, Ha'aretz; Author
- Mohamed ElBaradei Nobel Laureate; Author
- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Archbishop of Constantinople; Primus Inter Pares
- Thomas Friedman Columnist, Author
- James Fallows National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Niall Ferguson Historian, Author
- 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
- John Grisham Author
- Al Gore Former Vice President of the US
- 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
- Peter Kaplan Former Editor, The New York Observer
- 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
- Peter Orszag Chairman, Citigroup’s Public Sector Division
- 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
October 2009
- Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State
- Cornelia Bargmann Advisory Board Co-Chair, Obama's Brain Initiative
- Jeffrey Bender Professor, University of Minnesota
- Richard Besser Former Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Taylor Branch Author
- Howard G. Buffett C.E.O., Howard G. Buffett Foundation
- Joel Coen Director
- Ethan Coen Director
- Roger Cohen Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
- Gerald Fischbach Columbia University; Simons Foundation Autism Project
- Carrie Fisher Actor; Author
- Anthony Fauci Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Drew Faust President, Harvard University
- David Finkel Journalist, The Washington Post; Author
- Alison Gopnik Director of the Cognitive Development Lab, UC Berkeley; Author
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Richard Kind Actor
- Peter King Journalist, Sports Illustrated
- Lee Kuan Yew Prime Minister, Singapore
- David Kessler Pediatrician; Former Commissioner, FDA; Author
- Ezra Klein Editor in Chief, Vox Media
- J. Anthony Movshon Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, New York University
- Michael Moss Journalist, The New York Times
- Donald McNeil, Jr. Science and Health Journalist, The New York Times
- Dan Meridor Israeli Deputy Prime Minister
- John Micklethwait Editor in Chief, Bloomberg News
- Joe Nocera Columnist, Bloomberg View
- Vali Nasr Professor; Author
- Michael Pollan Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Author
- Brian Ross Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
- David Rohde Investigative Journalist, Reuters
- Stephen Roach Investor, Morgan Stanley
- John Searle Philosopher; Professor, UC Berkeley
- Michael Stuhlbarg Actor
- Andrew Ross Sorkin Guest Host
- Ike Skelton Representative, (D) Missouri
- Michael Sandel Professor, Harvard Universtiy
- Sam Tanenhaus Editor, The New York Times Book Review
- Mark Urban Correspondent, BBC
- James Watson Nobel Laureate; Molecular Biologist; Geneticist; Zoologist
- Jann Wenner Founder, Rolling Stone
- Byron Wien Chairman, Multi-Asset Investment, Blackstone