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Award-winning scholar and writer

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

David M. Kennedy

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian & Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University

Nicholas Lemann

Dean, Columbia Univ. School of Journalism

David Bellos

Translator

Alan Weisman

Journalist / Author

John Harbison

Composer; Institute Prof. of Music, MIT

Stephen Walt

Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University

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William A. Galston

Wall Street Journal Columnist; Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow for Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Robert Thurman

International Authority on World Religions and Spirituality

Ira Byock

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Arne Glimcher

Chairman, PaceWildenstein Galleries

Neelam Deo

Diplomat; Former Consul General of India

Robert Wright

Journalist, Scholar, and Prize-Winning Author of Best-Selling books about Science, Evolutionary Psychology, History, Religion, and Game Theory

Grover Norquist

Founder & President of Americans for Tax Reform, Author, Board Member of the Center for the National Interest, The Parental Rights Organization & The National Rifle Association

Lionel Tiger

Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University

Glenn Loury

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences & Professor of Economics at Brown University

Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Farnaz Fassihi

Senior Writer, Former Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal

Ronen Bergman

Investigative Journalist

Arthur Mutambara

Pres., Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe)