Lidia Bastianich

Celebrity Chef, Author, Host of "Lidia's Kitchen"

Caroline Elkins

Professor of African Studies at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Imperial Reckoning"

Walter Russell Mead

Distinguished Fellow in Strategy & Statesmanship at Hudson Institute; James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs & Humanities at Bard College; Global View Columnist at the Wall Street Journal

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Noted Historian and International Bestselling Author of "Jerusalem" and "Young Stalin"