Guests 9102 Guests
January 2008
- Benazir Bhutto Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Geoffrey Canada Founder, Harlem Children's Zone
- David Halberstam Journalist; Historian
- Molly Ivins Author; Columnist
- Marcel Marceau Actor; Mime
- Gian Carlo Menotti Composer
- Norman Mailer Author
- Luciano Pavarotti Opera Singer
- Beverly Sills Opera Singer
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Historian
- Kurt Vonnegut Author
- David Yepsen Columnist, Des Moines Register
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 Professor; Author
- 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
- Tom Aikens Chef and Owner, Tom Aikens Restaurant
- Richard Armitage Former Deputy Secretary of State
- Jeff Bezos C.E.O., Amazon
- Javier Bardem Actor
- Josh Brolin Actor
- T Bone Burnett Producer
- Anita Clayton Psychiatrist
- Joel Coen Director
- Ethan Coen Director
- Bill Carter Contributor, CNN and The New York Times; Author
- Russell Crowe Actor; Director
- Wylie Dufresne Executive Chef and Owner, WD-50
- Melanie Dunea Author; Photographer
- John Edwards Former Senator, (D) North Carolina; Presidential Candidate
- Saad Eskander Director, Iraq National Library and Archive
- Barney Frank Fmr. Representative, (D) Massachusetts
- Robert Gottlieb Former Editor, The New Yorker
- Ahmed Aboul Gheit Foreign Minister, Egypt
- Jeremy Greenstock Director, Ditchley Foundation; Former U.K. Envoy to Iraq
- Brian Grazer Movie and Television Producer; Author
- Philip Seymour Hoffman Actor
- Ethan Hawke Actor
- Julia Heiman Director, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex Gender and Reproduction
- Kay Bailey Hutchison Senator, (R) Texas; Author
- Mike Huckabee Former Governor, (R) Arkansas; 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate
- Jeffrey Immelt Chairman & C.E.O., General Electric
- Jay Z Rapper; Founder, Roc Nation
- Julie Kavanagh Author
- Bernard Kouchner French Minister, Foreign and European Affairs
- Michael Korda
- Alison Krauss Singer-Songwriter
- Sidney Lumet Director
- Edward Laumann Sociologist
- John McCain Senator, (R) Arizona
- Joni Mitchell Singer-Songwriter
- Norman Mailer Author
- Paul Nurse President, U.K. Centre for Research and Innovation; Former President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize Laureate
- Michael Oreskes Author; Executive Editor, International Herald Tribune
- Georgina Parkinson Coach and Teacher, American Ballet Theater
- Robert Plant Musician
- Charles Rangel Representative, (D) New York
- Eric Ripert Author; Chef and Co-Owner, Le Bernardin
- Karl Rove Author; Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
- Matt Roush TV Critic, TV Guide
- Bill Richardson
- Julian Schnabel Director; Artist
- Marcus Samuelsson Chef; Restaurateur
- Ridwan Shabsigh Urologist
- Tom Shales TV Critic, The Washington Post
- Jerry Seinfeld Actor
- Ridley Scott Director
- Ken Tucker TV Critic, Entertainment Weekly
- Jann Wenner Founder, Rolling Stone
- William "Kip" Ward General, U.S. Army, Africa Command
- Denzel Washington Actor; Producer; Director
October 2007
- Wes Anderson Director
- Steve Carell Actor
- Mohamed ElBaradei Nobel Laureate; Author
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Peter Hotez Parasitologist; Pediatrician; President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute
- Paul Nurse President, U.K. Centre for Research and Innovation; Former President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize Laureate
- Jeffrey Sachs Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Senior U.N. Advisor
- Ann Veneman Executive Director, UNICEF
- Tonya Villafana Manager, Malaria Vaccine Initiative
- Valerie Plame Wilson Former C.I.A. Operative; Author