Our past speakers include

 

in 2013:
Amy Wilentz / January 24
Sonja Lyubomirsky / January 29
Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani / February 22
Po Bronson / March 7
Candida Moss / March 12
Rob Bell / March 18
David Sheff / April 18
Mary Williams and Dave Eggers / April 23
Jim Wallis / May 2
Molly Melching / May 8
Khaled Hosseini / June 23
Mark Epstein / August 27
Katy Butler / September 12
Mal Warwick / September 15
Randall Kennedy / September 20
Heidi Boghosian / September 30
Jesmyn Ward / October 8
Alan Weisman / October 17
J. Craig Venter / October 25
Joshua Greene / November 12
Jung Chang / November 19
Daniel Goleman / November 21

in 2012:
Meredith Maran and Terry McMillan /February 22
Eric Alterman / April 19
Diana Butler Bass / May 1
Tim Ryan with Dacher Keltner/ May 2
Bryan Sykes / May 3
Timothy Noah / May 8
Michael Sandel / May 15
Christopher Buckley / June 13
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot / June 21
Hugh Sinclair with Rose Aguilar / July 24
Geoffrey Nunberg / September 11
Hanna Rosen / September 24
Paul Elie / October 2
Sherman Alexie / October 3
Richard Dawkins / October 11
Camille Paglia / October 24
Tamim Ansary / November 15
Andrew Solomon / November 29

in 2011:
Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD / January 13
Scott McLennan / February 22
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly / March 9
James Carroll / March 30
Susan Griffin, Karin Lofthus Carrington, Daniel Ellsberg,
George Lakoff, Joan Miura, and Howard Teich / May 12
Eli Pariser / May 18
David Sirota / June 9
Neil Gaiman with Adam Savage / June 27
Robert Bellah / September 14
David Kennedy / October 3
John Lithgow / October 4
Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow / October 12
Alice Hoffman / October 18
Lawrence Lessig / October 26
Steven Pinker / October 27
Lawrence Weschler and Walter Murch / November 10
Luis Alberto Urrea / December 6

 

 

in 2010:
Chris Farrell / January 21
Jaron Lanier / January 27
Ethan Watters with Todd Oppenheimer / February 4
Garry Wills / February 11
Chris Cleave / February 16
Joel Kotkin / February 18
Mark Vernon and Astra Taylor / March 1
Sam Keen / March 11
Tim O'Brien / March 16
Harry Kreisler / March 24 Christo Tsilokis and Tommy Weiringa with Oscar Villalon / April 21
Roxana Saberi / April 22
Peter Carey / May 5
Dan Ariely / June 3
Nicole Hollander / August 20
Meredith Maran and John McMurtrie / September 22
Elizabeth Rosner and Linda Gray Sexton / September 29
Miriam Pawel, Peter Schrag, Larry Tramutola, and Tom Dalzell / October 7
Robert Scheer / October 14
Houshang Asadi / October 21
Sam Harris / November 13

 

 

in 2009:
William Iggiagruk Nelson / January 14
Dacher Keltner and Michael Lewis /January 21
Dalton Conley / January 27
Luke Bergmann / January 28
Stephen Hinshaw / February 17
David Thomson / February 19
Pratap Chatterjee / February 20
Alva Noe / February 26
Xinran / February 27
Peter Singer / March 2
Stephen Mitchell / March 3
Alan Boss / March 13
Tom Davis and Dennis McNally / March 18
Elaine Showalter / March 19
Germaine Greer / March 31
Paul McGeough / April 7
Mahmood Mamdani / April 10
Judith Orloff / April 15
Michelle Goldberg / April 16
Donald Richie / April 21
Tamim Ansary / May 5
Ruth Reichl / May 10
Reza Aslan / May 12
Colson Whitehead / May 19
Luis Alberto Urrea / June 11
Eduardo Galeano / June 12
Lac Su / June 15  
Novella Carpenter and Michael Pollan /June 18
Scott Rosenberg / July 29
Lang Lang / September 8
Rebecca Solnit / September 17
Michael Sandel / September 23
Robert Scheer  with Peter Richardson / September 24
Max Blumenthal / September 29
Diane Ackerman / September 30
Po Bronson / October 6
Richard Dawkins / October 7
Sherman Alexie / October 8
Stewart Brand / October 16
Leonard Pitt / October 17
Kay Redfield Jamison / October 22
Deepak Chopra / October 23
Gary Vaynerchuk / October 25
Irene Khan / October 29
Orhan Pamuk / November 6
Liza Dalby / November 10
Susan Halpern / November 12
Mary Karr / November 16