Guests 9085 Guests
September 2006
- Jill Abramson Executive Editor, The New York Times
- Mario Batali Chef; Restaurateur; Author
- Calvin Butts Reverend, Abyssinian Baptist Church
- Jim Courier Tennis Champion
- Bill Carter Contributor, CNN and The New York Times; Author
- Arielle Dombasle Actor; Singer
- Tom DeFrank Journalist, New York Daily News
- Nora Ephron Writer, Playwright
- Bart Freundlich Filmmaker
- David Friend Editor of Creative Development, Vanity Fair
- Marc Gunther Journalist, Fortune Magazine
- Ted Koppel Former Anchor, ABC's "Nightline"; Author
- Howard Kurtz Media Critic, The Washington Post; Host, CNN
- Ronald Lauder Businessman; Co-founder, Neue Galerie
- Julianne Moore Actor
- Jon Meacham Historian, Author
- George Packer Journalist, The New Yorker
- George Pataki Governor, (R) New York
- Joe Paterno Head Football Coach, Penn State University
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- Johnnie L. Roberts Journalist, Newsweek
- Richard Serra Artist
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Calvin Trillin Author; Contributor, The New Yorker
- Frances Townsend Former National Security Adviser; CBS News security analyst
- Karen Van Lengen Dean, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
August 2006
- Brian Burton Musician
- Bill Buford Author
- Greg Boyd Senior Pastor, Woodland Hills Church
- Seth Berkley President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
- Bill Clinton Former U.S. President; Founder, Clinton Global Initiative
- Steve Chen Founder, YouTube
- David Carmel Vice President, StemCyte
- Eric Cohen Editor, New Atlantis; Senior Consultant, Council on Bioethics
- Toni Collette Actor
- Nicolas Cage Actor
- Junot Diaz Writer
- E.J. Dionne Columnist, The Washington Post
- George Daley Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- R. P. Eddy Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism, The Manhattan Institute
- Caroline Elkins Associate Professor of African Studies, Harvard University; Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Thomas Frieden New York City Commissioner for Health and Mental Hygene
- Amy Farber Health Advocate; Executive Director and Co-Founder, LAM Treatment Alliance
- Norman Francis President, Xavier University of Louisiana
- Alan Furst Author
- Richard Griffiths Actor
- Charlie Gibson Anchor, World News with Charles Gibson, ABC News
- Alberto Gonzales Attorney General of the United States
- James Glassman Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
- Jed Home Editor, The Times Picayune
- Lee Hamilton President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Chad Hurley Founder, YouTube
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- Ethan Harris Chief U.S. Economist, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- Orrin Hatch Senator, (R) Utah
- Nicholas Hellman Interim Director of HIV/AIDS program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- David Ho Director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
- Maira Kalman Artist; Illustrator
- Thomas Kean Author; Chairman, 9/11 Commission
- William Kristol Editor, The Weekly Standard
- Raymond Kelly Former Commissioner, NYPD
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- Spike Lee Director
- Tzipi Livni Minister of Justice, Israel
- Joshua Landis Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, The University of Oklahoma
- Cesar Millan Television Host; Dog Trainer
- Charles C. Mann Author; Journalist
- Imad Moustapha Syrian Ambassador to the United States
- Jon Meacham Historian, Author
- Adam Nagourney Journalist, The New York Times
- Conan O'Brien Comedian
- Michael Peña Actor
- Roger Rosenblatt Author
- Joel Robuchon Chef
- Ruth Reichl Editor in Chief, Gourmet Magazine
- Brian Ross Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
- Simon Schama University Professor of History and Art History, Columbia University; Author
- Jonathan Schell Correspondent, The Nation
- Jane Smiley Novelist
- Steven Simon Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
- Fouad Siniora Prime Minister, Lebanon
- Oliver Stone Filmmaker
- Lee Scott President and C.E.O., Walmart
- Mark Urban Correspondent, BBC
- Jack White Musician
- Meg White Musician
- Rick Warren Pastor, Saddleback Church; Author
- Susan Zolla-Pazner Professor of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine; Director of AIDS Research, New York VA Medical Center
July 2006
- Jon Lee Anderson Journalist, The New Yorker
- Nicholas Burns Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Francis Collins Director, National Institutes of Health
- Stephen Cohen Professor of Russian Studies, Princeton
- Lee Daniels Director
- Byron Dorgan Senator, (D) North Dakota
- Joseph Giacino Associate Director of Neuropsychology, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
- Garry Kasparov Chairman, The Human Rights Foundation
- Neil MacFarquhar United Nations Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Vali Nasr Dean Of Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies
- Shimon Peres Former President and Prime Minister, Israel
- Thomas Ricks Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
- Nicholas Schiff Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Henning Voss Neurologist, Weill Cornell Medical Center