James Patterson

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

Wally Lamb

Best-Selling Novelist & Educator

Johann Hari

Journalist & Best-Selling Author of "Chasing the Scream"

Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

David Burkus

Best-Selling Author & Organizational Psychologist

A Simple Way to Inspire Your Team | David Burkus | TED

Charles Kaiser

Award-winning Author & Journalist; Expert on the Media, Politics, the 1960s, and Gay Life in America

Dave Zirin

NYT Best-Selling Author & Sports Columnist

Simon Lovell

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Ian Frazier

Author & Humorist; Staff Writer at "The New Yorker"

Bill Dedman

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Reporter for NBC News; Co-Author, "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune"

Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Urvashi Vaid

LGBT leader, attorney, community organizer for over three decades. Depicts an awarding-winning analysis of the gay rights movement.

Tim Riley

From Censorship In The Arts to Do The Beatles Still Matter? — web producer, campus speaker, music critic, and pianist Tim Riley brings an incisive critical perspective to the underlying class, race, and sexual orientation themes of the free speech debate,

Jon Leiberman

Reporter; Television Producer; Host of Sirius XM's "A Hard Look with Jon Leiberman;" Vice President & Executive Producer, SAP

Charles Kimball

Middle East expert and analyst on world religions, Islam, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, and the intersection of religion and politics in America.

Raymond Bonner

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and foreign correspondent.

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Christopher M. Schroeder

Internet/Media CEO; Venture Investor; Writer on Startups

Greg McKeown

CEO of THIS Inc. & Best-Selling Author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less"

Herbie J Pilato

Author / Producer / Consultant

Sebastian Faulks

Novelist, Journalist, and Broadcaster

Ryan Grim

Ryan Grim / Washington Bureau Chief at The Huffington Post / Author of "This Is Your Country On Drugs"

Derek Blasberg

Director of Fashion at YouTube

Benjamin Percy

Acclaimed Novelist & Story Writer Author of The Dead Lands

Mark Seal

Author, Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair

Neal Gabler

Author, Cultural Historian and Television Commentator

Joshua Foer

Science Journalist & Author of "Moonwalking with Einstein"

Thomas Pogge

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.

Bill O'Reilly

Host of "The O'Reilly Factor," Best-Selling Author & Syndicated News Columnist

Peter Thiel

Former CEO and Co-founder of PayPal; Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist

Neil White

Best-selling Memoirist, Award-winning Journalist & Publisher