Guests 9085 Guests
January 2008
- Ken Auletta Contributor, The New Yorker
- Roger Altman Founder, Evercore
- Abdullah Abdullah Chief Executive Officer of Afghanistan
- Marin Alsop Musical Director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Conductor
- Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State
- Jonathan Alter Analyst, MSNBC; Columnist, The Daily Beast
- Richard Berner Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
- Tiki Barber Sports Analyst, NBC
- Bob Barbera Chief Economist, Investment Technology Group
- Bill Bradley Former U.S. Senator
- Paul Begala Democratic Strategist
- David Brooks Columnist; Author
- Benazir Bhutto Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- James Clyburn Representative, (D) South Carolina
- Geoffrey Canada Founder, Harlem Children's Zone
- Matthew Dowd Chief Political Analyst, ABC News
- David Enrich Journalist, The Wall Street Journal
- Jan Hatzius Chief U.S. Economist at Goldman Sachs
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Lylah Holmes Columbia Graduate Student
- David Halberstam Journalist; Historian
- Martin Indyk Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
- Molly Ivins Author; Columnist
- Peter King Journalist, Sports Illustrated
- Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University; Author
- Douglas Lute Lieutenant General, Army; Deputy National Security Adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan; Assistant to the President
- Heath Ledger Actor
- Mark Leibovich Journalist, The New York Times
- Lawrence Mishel Director, Economic Policy Institute
- David Malpass Chief Economist, Bear Steams
- Ken Mehlman Former Republican National Committee Chairman
- Ruth Marcus Journalist, The Washington Post
- Jon Meacham Historian, Author
- Saad Mohseni Chairman, C.E.O., The Moby Group
- Steve McMahon Democratic Strategist
- Marcel Marceau Actor; Mime
- Gian Carlo Menotti Composer
- Norman Mailer Author
- Floyd Norris Chief Financial Correspondent, The New York Times
- Adam Nagourney Journalist, The New York Times
- Philip Pullman Author
- Luciano Pavarotti Opera Singer
- Charles Rangel Representative, (D) New York
- Alex Ross Music Critic, The New Yorker; Author
- Dennis Ross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Alissa Rubin Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Fletcher N. Smith, Jr. Representative, (D) South Carolina
- Shelby Steele Author; Columnist
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Historian
- Landon Thomas Journalist, The New York Times
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- Joe Trippi Political Consultant
- Kurt Vonnegut Author
- Jacob Weisberg Chairman, Slate Group
- Patricia Williams Law Professor, Columbia University
- Muhammad Yunus Founder, Grameen Bank; 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- David Yepsen Columnist, Des Moines Register
- Ghaith al-Omari Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine
December 2007
- Paul Thomas Anderson Filmmaker
- Ken Auletta Contributor, The New Yorker
- Khalid Abdalla Actor
- William F. Buckley, Jr. Journalist; Author
- Tom Brokaw Former Anchor, NBC Nightly News
- Naomi Chazan Israeli Delegate, International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace
- Jim Calhoun Basketball Coach, University of Connecticut
- Alain Carpentier Cardiac Surgeon
- Bill Clinton Former U.S. President; Founder, Clinton Global Initiative
- Tom DeFrank Journalist, New York Daily News
- Daniel Day-Lewis Actor
- Akiva Eldar Chief Political Columnist, Ha'aretz; Author
- Sam Elliott Actor
- David Frost Journalist; Author
- Marc Foster Director
- Ramachandra Guha Author
- Peter Gomes Theologian, Harvard University; Author
- Khaled Hosseini Author; Doctor
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- Kayce Freed Jennings Wife of Peter Jennings
- Naomi Klein Activist; Writer
- Paul Krugman Nobel Laureate; Journalist
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Mohammad Khazaee
- Franklin Kelly Senior Curator of American and British Painting, National Gallery of Art
- Catherine Lord Clinical Psychologist
- James Lipton Author; TV Host, "Inside the Actors Studio"
- Walter Liedtke Curator, European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Montgomery McFate Senior Social Science Advisor, Institute for Defense Analysis
- Helen Mayberg Professor, Emory University
- George Mitchell Author; Former Senate Majority Leader; Former Federal Judge; Former Senator, (D) Maine
- Steve Martin Comedian; Actor; Musician
- Jon Meacham Historian, Author
- Paul Nurse President, U.K. Centre for Research and Innovation; Former President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize Laureate
- Vali Nasr Dean Of Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies
- Donald Price Professor of Pathology, Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
- Brad Pitt Actor
- Thomas Perkins Venture Capitalist; Author
- Sally Quinn Author; Journalist and Columnist, The Washington Post
- Randall Robinson Author; Founder, TransAfrica
- Richard Russo Author
- John Richardson Art Historian
- Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas Palestinian Delegate, International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace
- Sally Bedell Smith Biographer
- Sarah Sewall Director, Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard University
- Lynn Sherr 20/20 Correspondent; Journalist; Author
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Fred Thompson Actor; Republican Presidential Candidate
- Craig Venter Founder and C.E.O., Synthetic Genomes
- David Westin Author; Former President, ABC News
November 2007
- Joan Acocella Dance Critic, The New Yorker
- John Edwards Former Senator, (D) North Carolina; Presidential Candidate
- Robert Gottlieb Former Editor, The New Yorker
- Ahmed Aboul Gheit Foreign Minister, Egypt
- Philip Seymour Hoffman Actor
- Ethan Hawke Actor
- Julie Kavanagh Author
- Bernard Kouchner French Minister, Foreign and European Affairs
- Sidney Lumet Director
- John McCain Senator, (R) Arizona
- Georgina Parkinson Coach and Teacher, American Ballet Theater
- Julian Schnabel Director; Artist
- Jann Wenner Founder, Rolling Stone