Guests 9088 Guests
January 2006
- Shaukat Aziz Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Deborah Acklin Executive VP and General Manager, WQED Multimedia
- Daniel Ayalon Israeli Ambassador to the United States
- Peter Bergen National Security Analyst, CNN
- David Brooks Columnist; Author
- L. Paul Bremer III Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq
- 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
- Noah Feldman Professor, Harvard Law School; Columnist, Bloomberg View
- Charles Fried Harvard Law Professor; Former U.S. Solicitor General
- Brian Grazer Movie and Television Producer; Author
- John Hennessy President, Stanford University
- Steven Johnson Science Writer; Author
- Tom Krens Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
- Douglas Lute Lieutenant General, Army; Deputy National Security Adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan; Assistant to the President
- Ben Loeterman Director
- David Lat Former Federal Prosecutor; Blogger
- David Margolick Contributing Editor, Portfolio
- Bennett Miller Director
- Charles Peters Political Strategist; Author
- James Risen Journalist, The New York Times; Author
- Dennis Ross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Elaine Stritch Actress; Cabaret Singer
- Eric Stange Director
- Kiefer Sutherland Actor
- 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 Columnist, Author
- 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 Filmmaker
- 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
- 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 NSC Counterterrorism Advisor
- Niki Caro Filmmaker
- Tom DeFrank Journalist, New York Daily News
- Richard Posner Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Author
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Brian Wilson Musician
- Mark Warner Senator, (D) Virginia