Guests 9102 Guests
August 2006
- 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
- Norman Francis President, Xavier University of Louisiana
- Alan Furst Author
- 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 Film Director
- Tzipi Livni Minister of Justice, Israel
- Joshua Landis Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, The University of Oklahoma
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chris Anderson Curator, TED Talks
- Christiane Amanpour Journalist, ABC News
- Fouad Ajami Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Director of Middle East Studies, Johns Hopkins University
- Nicholas Burns Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Richard W. Bulliet Professor of History, Middle East Institute, Columbia University
- Peter Beinart Editor, The Atlantic; Contributor, CNN
- Warren Buffett Chairman and CEO; Philanthropist
- Francis Collins Director, National Institutes of Health
- Stephen Cohen Professor of Russian Studies, Princeton
- Steve Case C.E.O., Revolution
- Dov Charney Founder and C.E.O., American Apparel
- Jim Courier Tennis Champion
- Jorge Castaneda Former Foreign Minister of Mexico
- Lee Daniels Director
- Byron Dorgan Senator, (D) North Dakota
- Joseph Giacino Associate Director of Neuropsychology, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
- Paul Giamatti Actor
- Dan Gillerman Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations
- Melinda Gates Co-Chair, The Gates Foundation
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- Bernard Haykel Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
- Garry Kasparov Author; Chess Champion
- Rami Khouri Professor, American University of Beirut
- Zalmay Khalilzad Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- Bill Keller Editor in Chief, The Marshall Project
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Author
- Chappell Lawson Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Neil MacFarquhar United Nations Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Rupert Murdoch Chairman and Chief Executive, News Corporation
- Nouhad Mahmoud Foreign Ministry Representative, Lebanon
- Vali Nasr Professor; Author
- Marion Nestle Paulette Goddard Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University; Author
- Shimon Peres Former President and Prime Minister, Israel
- Thomas Ricks Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
- Dennis Ross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Allan Rosenfield Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- Nicholas Schiff Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Bouthaina Shaaban Syrian Expatriates Minister
- Anthony Shadid Journalist, The New York Times
- Tommy Smyth Soccer Analyst, ESPN
- Pamela Starr Analyst, Eurasia Group; Professor, Georgetown University
- Henning Voss Neurologist, Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Leon Wieseltier Former Editor, The New Republic