Guests 9085 Guests
January 2006
- Daniel Ayalon Israeli Ambassador to the United States
- Michael Chertoff Former Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
- John Chambers C.E.O., Cisco Systems
- John Doerr Venture Capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
- Esther Dyson Start-Up Investor, Edventure
- E. L. Doctorow Novelist
- Charles Fried Harvard Law Professor; Former U.S. Solicitor General
- Noah Feldman Professor, Harvard Law School; Columnist, Bloomberg View
- Brian Grazer Movie and Television Producer; Author
- John Hennessy President, Stanford University
- Tom Krens Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
- David Lat Former Federal Prosecutor; Blogger
- James Risen Journalist, The New York Times; Author
- Dennis Ross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Stratton Sclavos President, Chairman and C.E.O., Verisign
- Jonathan Schwartz President and C.O.O., Sun Microsystems
- Hilary Spurling Author
- Evan Thomas Author
- Bruce Wasserstein Chairman & CEO, Lazard LLC
- John Yoo Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley
December 2005
- John F. Burns London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Joe Biden Vice President of the United States
- Richard Brodhead President, Duke University
- Adrien Brody Actor
- Kevin Cahill Director, Tropical Disease Center, Lenox Hill Hospital; Professor, NYU Medical Center
- Richard Corliss Film Critic, Time
- Jim Carrey Comedian
- Dave Chappelle Comedian
- David Denby Film Critic, The New Yorker
- Judi Dench Actor
- Niles Eldredge Curator, American Museum of Natural History
- Jan Egeland Former U.N. Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs
- Sasha Frere-Jones Music Critic
- Ralph Fiennes Actor
- Milton Friedman Economist
- Thomas Friedman Author; Columnist, The New York Times
- Bill Flanagan Executive Vice President, MTV
- Stephen Frears Director
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Newt Gingrich Former Speaker of the House
- Stephen Gaghan Writer, Director
- Reed Hastings Co-founder and C.E.O., Netflix
- Karen Hughes Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, US State Department
- Mike Huckabee Former Governor, (R) Arkansas; 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate
- John Hope Franklin Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
- James Ivory Director
- Tommy Lee Jones Actor
- Diane Keaton Actor
- Jim Kelly Managing Editor, Time Magazine
- David Lynch Comedian
- Joe Levy Guest Host
- Heath Ledger Actor
- Ang Lee Director
- Sia Michel Editor in Chief, Spin
- Hugh Morton Conservationist; Photographer
- Walter Mossberg Former Technology Columnist
- Rob Marshall Director
- Anne Mulcahy Chairman and C.E.O., Xerox Corporation
- Henry McKinnell Chairman and C.E.O., Pfizer, Inc.
- Thom Mayne Architect; 2005 Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Nicholas Negroponte Chairman, One Laptop Per Child; Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory
- Grover Norquist President, Americans for Tax Reform
- Nicolai Ouroussoff Guest Host
- Jon Pareles Chief Pop Music Critic, The New York Times
- Jed Perl Art Critic
- George Packer Journalist, The New Yorker
- Sarah Jessica Parker Actor
- Natasha Richardson Actor
- Carole Radziwill Author
- Chris Rock Actor; Screenwriter; Director; Comedian
- George Shultz Former Secretary of State
- A. O. Scott Guest Host
- Lisa Schwarzbaum Film Critic, Entertainment Weekly
- Ruth Simmons President, Brown University
- Mimi Valdes Editor in Chief, Vibe
- James Watson Nobel Laureate; Molecular Biologist; Geneticist; Zoologist
- E. O. Wilson Author
- Robin Williams Comedian; Actor
November 2005
- Michael Boyd Director, Royal Shakespeare Company
- John F. Burns London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Richard Clarke Former National Security Council Counterterrorism Advisor
- Niki Caro Filmmaker
- Ahmad Chalabi Deputy Prime Minister, Iraq
- Tom DeFrank Journalist, New York Daily News
- Maureen Dowd Columnist, The New York Times
- Michael Duffy Editorial Director, TIME
- Abderrahim Foukara Journalist, Al Jazeera
- Tehnzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Jim Hoagland Journalist, The Washington Post
- Magic Johnson Former NBA Player; Entrepreneur; Author
- Ted Koppel Former Anchor, ABC's "Nightline"; Author
- Gordon Moore Co-Founder, Intel Corporation
- Ohad Naharin Artistic Director, Batsheva Dance Company
- Richard Posner Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Author
- Colin Powell Former Secretary of State
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Brian Wilson Musician
- Mark Warner Senator, (D) Virginia
- Roger Waters Musician; Founding Member, Pink Floyd
- Reese Witherspoon Actor