Jeffrey Israel

Author & Jewish Studies Professor at Williams College

Virginia Postrel

Author & Columnist; Writes on The Intersection of Commerce & Culture

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Raj Patel

Award-Winning Writer, Food Politics Activist, Filmmaker & Academic

Jim Wallis

Theologian, Writer, Political Activist & Racial Justice Advocate

Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus

Calvin Trillin

Author, Columnist, Humorist & Political Satirist

Eric Foner

Prominent Historian & Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University

Kenneth Roth

Executive Director at Human Rights Watch

Lisa Witter

Partner and Chief Change Officer, Fenton

Interview Lisa Witter (English)

David Bellos

Translator

Tim O'Brien

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist for "The Things They Carried"

Neil Giuliano

Gay Rights Activist & President and CEO of Greater Pheonix Leadership

Ira Byock

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Melissa Harris-Lacewell

Professor, Princeton University

Reihan Salam

President of the Manhattan Group for Policy Research; Former Executive Editor of National Review

Andrew Cohen

Founder, EnlightenNext

Bob Mankoff

Cartoon & Humor Editor; Humorist; President, CartoonCollections[.]com; Founder of The Cartoon Bank

Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Award-Winning Scholar, Educator & Human Rights Activist; Faculty Member at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and John F. Kennedy School of Government

Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom

Spencer Wells

Geneticist, Anthropologist, Author, Entrepreneur, Adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin

An Phung

Multimedia Journalist

Rob Huebel

Actor, Comedian & Writer; Known for his Role in "Children's Hospital" and "Transparent"

Jacques Pépin

Master French Chef; Food Columnist; Cookbook Author Educator

David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

Peter Rojas

Co-founder of Gizmodo and of Engadget

Ingrid Newkirk

President, PETA

Stephen Walt

Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University

Stephen M. Walt | Realism & Balance of Threat | GREAT MINDS

Eric Greitens

Missouri Governor; Former Navy SEAL and Founder of The Mission Continues; Best-Selling Author of "Strength and Compassion and The Heart and the Fist"

Joel Klein

Lawyer, Author & Former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education

Matthew Modine

Actor / Activist

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author