Guests 9102 Guests
February 2006
- Norman Augustine Former Chairman and C.E.O., Lockheed Martin
- Thierry Breton Finance Minister, France
- Andre Bishop Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theatre
- Noah Baumbach Director; Writer
- Christopher Durang Playwright
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- Bryce Dallas Howard Actor
- Peter King Journalist, Sports Illustrated
- Adam Nagourney Journalist, The New York Times
- Kenneth Pollack Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Wilson Pickett Musician
- Frank Rich Columnist, The New York Times
- Jane Rosenthal Co-Founder, Tribeca Film Festival
- Joe Roth Director
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Gary Sick Senior Research Scholar, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University
- Ray Takeyh Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Roy Vagelos Former Chairman and C.E.O., Merck
- Wendy Wasserstein Playwright
- Philippe de Montebello Art Historian, Artinfo
January 2006
- Mike Allen Co-Founder, Axios
- Shaukat Aziz Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Deborah Acklin Executive VP and General Manager, WQED Multimedia
- Daniel Ayalon Israeli Ambassador to the United States
- Evan Bayh Senator, (D) Indiana
- Peter Bergen National Security Analyst, CNN
- David Brooks Columnist, Author
- L. Paul Bremer III Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq
- Charlie Cook Editor, The Cook Political Report
- Gillian Caldwell Executive Director, Witness
- Michael Chertoff Former Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
- John Chambers C.E.O., Cisco Systems
- Ken Duberstein Former White House Chief of Staff; C.E.O., The Duberstein Group
- Tom DeFrank Journalist, New York Daily News
- John Doerr Venture Capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
- Esther Dyson Start-Up Investor, Edventure
- E. L. Doctorow Novelist
- Chrystia Freeland Journalist, Financial Times
- Noah Feldman Professor, Harvard Law School; Columnist, Bloomberg View
- Charles Fried Harvard Law Professor; Former U.S. Solicitor General
- Peter Gabriel Founder, Witness
- Gilberto Gil Minister of Culture, Brazil; Singer-Songwriter
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Host, "Finding Your Roots" on PBS; Professor, Harvard University
- Brian Grazer Movie and Television Producer; Author
- John Harwood Journalist, CNBC; The New York Times
- Kay Bailey Hutchison Senator, (R) Texas; Author
- Osama Hamdan Spokesperson for Hamas
- Anthony Hopkins Actor
- John Hennessy President, Stanford University
- Van Jones Executive Director, Books Not Bars
- Eugene Jarecki Filmmaker
- Steven Johnson Science Writer; Author
- Zalmay Khalilzad Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- Tom Krens Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
- Bernard-Henri Lévy Philosopher
- 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
- John McLaughlin Former Deputy Director, CIA
- David Margolick Contributing Editor, Portfolio
- Bennett Miller Director
- Charles Peters Political Strategist; Author
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Dennis Ross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Brian Ross Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
- James Risen Journalist, The New York Times; Author
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- 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
- Shibley Telhami Professor, University of Maryland; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- Evan Thomas Author
- Ron Wyden Senator, (D) Oregon
- Spencer Wells Director, The Genographic Project; Explorer-In-Residence, National Geographic
- Bruce Wasserstein Chairman & CEO, Lazard LLC
- John Yoo Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley
December 2005
- Kevin Cahill Director, Tropical Disease Center, Lenox Hill Hospital; Professor, NYU Medical Center
- Richard Corliss Film Critic, Time
- David Denby Film Critic, The New Yorker
- 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
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Reed Hastings Co-founder and C.E.O., Netflix
- James Ivory Director
- Tommy Lee Jones Actor
- Diane Keaton Actor
- Jim Kelly Managing Editor, Time Magazine
- Sia Michel Editor in Chief, Spin
- Hugh Morton Conservationist; Photographer
- Walter Mossberg Former Technology Columnist
- Rob Marshall Director
- Nicholas Negroponte Chairman, One Laptop Per Child; Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory
- Nicolai Ouroussoff Guest Host
- Jon Pareles Chief Pop Music Critic, The New York Times
- Jed Perl Art Critic
- George Packer Journalist, The New Yorker
- Natasha Richardson Actor
- Carole Radziwill Author
- George Shultz Former Secretary of State
- A. O. Scott Guest Host
- Lisa Schwarzbaum Film Critic, Entertainment Weekly
- Mimi Valdes Editor in Chief, Vibe