Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Raj Patel

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

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

Jim Wallis

Theologian, Writer, Political Activist & Racial Justice Advocate

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

Jeffrey Israel

Author & Jewish Studies Professor at Williams College

Virginia Postrel

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

Adam Bly

Ex-VP of Data at Spotify; Founder of Seed; Founder of an AI startup, Stealth

Tom Stewart

Editor, Harvard Business Review

Steven Mazie

Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard High School Early College

Brian Hoffstein

Contributing Writer

Henry Rollins (Spoken Word)

Artist

Dr. Eric Kandel

Nobel Prize-winning Neuroscientist and Co-director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University

Floyd Abrams

First Amendment Attorney

Sandra Aamodt

Neuroscientist

Matthew C. Nisbet

Professor of Communication, American University

Cody Adams

Managing Editor of The Floating University.