Guests 9088 Guests
December 2008
- Amy Adams Actor
- Severine Autesserre Professor, Barnard College
- Daniel Barenboim Pianist; Conductor
- Cherie Blair Lawyer; Author
- Suliman Baldo Fellow, International Center for Transitional Justice
- Nicholas Burns Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Geoff Colvin Author; Editor, Fortune Magazine
- Elliott Carter Composer
- Kevin Chilton General, U.S. Airforce; Commander, USSTRATCOM
- Steve Coll Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Dean, Columbia School of Journalism
- Leonardo DiCaprio Actor
- Stephen Daldry Director
- Viola Davis Actor
- David Fincher Director
- Thomas Friedman Columnist, Author
- Robert Gottlieb Former Editor, The New Yorker
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- Malcolm Gladwell Author
- Annette Gordon-Reed Author; Historian
- Robert Gates Former Director, CIA
- Anthony Gambino Former Mission Director in Congo, USAID
- Dustin Hoffman Actor
- David Hare Author; Playwright
- David Herszenhorn Journalist, The New York Times
- Philip Seymour Hoffman Actor
- 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
- Quincy Jones Producer; Composer
- Ben Kingsley Actor
- David Kross Actor
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- Gilbert Kaplan Conductor
- Michael Kinsley Founder, Slate Magazine
- Alain Lefevre Pianist; Composer
- James Levine Conductor, Music Director, Metropolitan Opera
- Frank Langella Actor
- David Miliband President, International Rescue Committee
- Jon Meacham Historian, Author
- 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
- Brad Pitt Actor
- Michael Porter Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness
- Anjali Pollack Interior Designer, Anjali Pollack Designs
- Michael Pollack Partner, Glenhill Capital
- Bernhard Schlink Author
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- Meryl Streep Actor
- John Patrick Shanley Writer; Director
- David Stern Commissioner, National Basketball Association
- Calvin Trillin Author; Contributor, The New Yorker
- James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
- Nassim Taleb Author
- Kate Winslet Actor
- E. O. Wilson Author
- Jeff Zeleny Journalist, The New York Times
- 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
- David Cole Chairman Emeritus, Center for Automotive Research
- Michael Crichton Author
- 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
- Barney Frank Fmr. Representative, (D) Massachusetts
- Eric Foner Author; Historian; Professor, Columbia University
- Richard Griffiths Actor
- Antonio Gotto, Jr. Dean, Weill Medical College, Cornell
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- 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"
- Baz Luhrmann Filmmaker; Writer; Director
- Lawrence Lessig Professor, Harvard University
- 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
- Nicholas Negroponte Chairman, One Laptop Per Child; Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory
- Sean Penn Actor; Writer
- Vikram Pandit C.E.O., Citigroup
- Steven Pearlstein Columnist, The Washington Post
- Daniel Radcliffe Actor
- Paul Ridker Doctor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- Kiefer Sutherland Actor
- Andrew Ross Sorkin Guest Host
- Richard Shelby Senator, (R) Alabama
- Ben Silverman Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment; Co-Chairman, Universal Media Studios
- Jeffrey Sachs Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Senior U.N. Advisor
- Amity Shlaes Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Columnist, Bloomberg News
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- John Updike Author
- Gus Van Sant Director
- Daniel Yergin Author; Vice Chairman, IHS
- Jeff Zeleny Journalist, The New York Times