Guests 9102 Guests
January 2007
- Anthony Atala Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
- Andrew Bacevich Retired Colonel, U.S. Army
- Juliette Binoche Actor
- John F. Burns London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Etienne-Emile Baulieu Former President, French Academy of Sciences
- Michael Beschloss Historian; Author
- Douglas Brinkley Historian
- Octavia Butler Writer
- Ed Bradley Journalist; Anchor, 60 Minutes
- Charlie Cook Editor, The Cook Political Report
- J. D. Crouch Deputy National Security Adviser
- Bill Condon Director
- James Clyburn Representative, (D) South Carolina
- Tom DeFrank Journalist, New York Daily News
- Ken Duberstein Former White House Chief of Staff; C.E.O., The Duberstein Group
- Michael Duffy Editorial Director, TIME
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- Todd Field Director; Actor
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Host, "Finding Your Roots" on PBS; Professor, Harvard University
- Donny George Former Director, Iraqi National Museum; Archeologist
- Atul Gawande Surgeon; Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Adam Gopnik Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- David Gonzales Journalist, The New York Times
- Michael Gordon Chief Military Correspondent, The New York Times
- John Kenneth Galbraith Economist
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- Alistair Horne Historian; Author
- Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Dale Irvin Dean and Professor, New York Theological Seminary; Reverend
- David Ignatius Foreign Affairs Columnist
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- William Kristol Editor, The Weekly Standard
- Jack Keane Former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
- Eric Lander Professor of Biology, M.I.T.; Director, Broad Institute
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Anthony Minghella Director
- Sam Mendes Director
- Zubin Mehta Musical Director, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
- Paul Nurse President, U.K. Centre for Research and Innovation; Former President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize Laureate
- Peter O'Toole Actor
- Wilson Pickett Musician
- Jack Palance Actor
- Gordon Parks Photographer; Musician; Writer; Director
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Robert Rubin Former Secretary of the Treasury
- Thomas Ricks Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
- John Rich Physician; MacArthur Fellow
- Richard Rodriguez Journalist; Author
- Louis Rukeyser Financial Journalist; Television Host, Wall Street Week
- William Rubin Art Historian; Former Curator and Director, Painting and Sculpture Department, Museum of Modern Art
- George Saunders Author
- Anna Schuleit Artist; MacArthur Fellow
- Howard Schultz C.E.O., Starbucks
- Kiefer Sutherland Actor
- Eric Steel Filmmaker
- Hilary Swank Actress
- Calvin Trillin Author; Contributor, The New Yorker
- Ed Viesturs Mountain Climber; Author
- Craig Venter Founder and C.E.O., Synthetic Genomes
- Patricia Williams Law Professor, Columbia University
- Robin Wright Joint Fellow, U.S. Institute for Peace
- James Watson Nobel Laureate; Molecular Biologist; Geneticist; Zoologist
- Shelley Winters Actor
- Wendy Wasserstein Playwright
- Fareed Zakaria Columnist, Author
December 2006
- Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State
- Ken Auletta Contributor, The New Yorker
- Craig Barrett Chairman, Intel
- Cate Blanchett Actor
- Zbigniew Brzezinski Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Former National Security Advisor
- John F. Burns London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Tony Bennett Singer
- James Baker Former Secretary of State
- Ben Barnes Former Lieutenant Governor of Texas; Author
- George Clooney Actor
- Alfonso Cuarón Filmmaker
- Stephen Colbert Comedian
- Michael Caine Actor
- Stephen Cohen Professor of Russian Studies, Princeton
- John Doerr Venture Capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
- Matt Damon Actor
- Robert De Niro Actor
- Lou Dobbs TV Host; Author
- Richard Eyre Director
- Clint Eastwood Director
- Ahmet Ertegun Founding Chairman, Atlantic Records
- Edward Jay Epstein Author
- Jan Egeland Former U.N. Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs
- Yuri Felshtinsky Writer
- Charles Giancarlo Senior Vice-President and Chief Development Officer, Cisco
- Alejandro González Iñárritu Filmmaker
- Natalie Gulbis Professional Golfer
- Reed Hastings Co-founder and C.E.O., Netflix
- Brian Halla Chairman, National Semiconductor
- Lee Hamilton President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- David Hare Author; Playwright
- Angelina Jolie Actor; Filmmaker
- Josef Joffe Publisher and Editor, Die Zeit
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- Scott McNealy Chairman and Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems
- Festus Mogae President, Republic of Botswana
- Jack Matlock Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
- Sam Moore Singer
- Edward Norton Actor
- Anthony O'Reilly Former Chairman, Former C.E.O., H.J. Heinz
- Clive Owen Actor
- Jancis Robinson Wine Columnist, The Financial Times
- Lisa Randall Professor, Harvard University; Theoretical Physicist
- Salman Rushdie Author
- K. R. Sridhar Co-Founder and C.E.O., Bloom Energy
- Sting Singer; Songwriter
- Sandy Weill Former Chairman and C.E.O., Citigroup
- E. O. Wilson Author
- Jerry Yang Chairman and Co-Founder, Yahoo
- Guillermo del Toro Film Director; Author