in 2024:
Scott Shigeoka with Jason Marsh / Mar 14
in 2023:
Dacher Keltner with Michael Pollan / Jan 23
Matthew Desmond with Piper Kerman / Mar 29
Jane Hirshfield / Sept 13 [video]
Naomi Klein with Annalee Newitz / Sept 20
Adam Mansbach with W. Kamau Bell / Sept 26
Heather Cox Richardson with Rebecca Solnit / Oct 4
Yung Pueblo with Cecily Mak / Oct 18
Teju Cole with Delphine Sims / Oct 23
Roxane Gay with Tommy Orange / Oct 24
Naomi Alderman with Maggie Tokuda-Hall / Nov 6
in 2022:
Leonard Mlodinow with Dr. Michael Shermer / Jan 4
Samantha Hunt with Rita Bullwinkel / May 2
Mónica Guzmán with Peggy Holman / May 26
Obi Kaufmann / Jun 7
Ibram X. Kendi with W. Kamau Bell / Jun 24
Patrick Radden Keefe with Jonah Weiner / Jul 8
Congressman Adam Schiff with Christine Pelosi / Aug 18
Randall Munroe with Adam Savage / Sept 21
Celeste Ng with R. O. Kwon / Oct 19
George Saunders with Samin Nosrat / Nov 2
in 2021:
David P. Barash with David Livingstone Smith / Jan 13
Dr. Euan Angus Ashley with Stephen Quake / Feb 23
Ed Frauenheim / Feb 25
Amanda Ripley with Jason Marsh / Apr 22
Mary Roach with Zach Weinersmith / Sept 14
Martin Ford / Sept 16
Saul Griffith with Laura Fraser and Sam Calisch / Oct 12
Bob Woodward & Robert Costa with Mindy Marqués / Oct 14
David Livingstone Smith / Oct 14
in 2020:
Patricia Marx with Roz Chast / January 23
Shauna Shapiro with Eve Ekman / February 6
Thom Hartmann / February 17
Christine Carter / February 20
Linda Sarsour / March 31
Alexandra Petri with Alexis Coe / June 25
Anne Applebaum / July 27
Shaun King / Aug 12
Chuck Palahniuk / Sept 16
Cory Doctorow with Malkia Devich-Cyril & Meredith Whittaker / Oct 15
David Livingstone Smith with David P. Barash / Oct 20
in 2019:
John Brockman with Chris Anderson, Anca Dragan, and George Dyson / February 27
Cory Doctorow with Richard Kadrey / March 25
Siri Hustvedt with Michael Palmer / March 27
Nathan Englander / April 2
Nathaniel Rich with Mark Danner / April 22
Ani DiFranco with Hilary Saunders / May 14
Thom Hartmann / June 25
Salman Rushdie with Andrew Sean Greer / Sept 20
Naomi Klein with Clara Jeffery / Sept 26
Megan Phelps-Roper with Jeremy Adam Smith / Oct 16
Susan Rice with Miguel Bustos / Oct 16
Marc Brackett / Oct 29
in 2018:
Charles C. Mann with Annalee Newitz / January 23
Sonya Renee Taylor with Denise Jolly / February 12
Morgan Jerkins / February 21
Michael Pollan / June 4
Porochista Khakpour with Achy Obejas / June 26
Don Miguel Ruiz with Barbara Emrys / June 27
Amber Tamblyn with Matthew Zapruder / July 5
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. with Dacher Keltner / August 27
John Carreyrou with Adam Sterling / October 9
in 2017:
Michael Eric Dyson with Frances Dinkelspiel / January 19
Ayelet Waldman / January 24
Chicken John Rinaldi / March 8
Rebecca Solnit with Jeff Chang / March 16
Camille Paglia / March 21
Naomi Klein / June 20
Ellen Ullman with Scott Rosenberg / August 15
Bill Nye with Ransom Stephens / September 10
Richard J. Davidson with Dacher Keltner / September 18
Masha Gessen with Alla Efimova / October 9
Cristina García and Elizabeth Rosner / November 7
Julie Lythcott-Haims with Nicole Sanchez + Harmony Moses / November 30
in 2016:
Mei Fong / February 2
Ellen Malcolm / March 14
John Perkins / March 16
Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman / March 28
Chris Anderson / May 10
Sean Carroll / May 17
Janna Levin / June 21
Michael Krasny / November 9
Jeff Chang / November 29
in 2015:
Christine Carter / January 21
Michael Gazzaniga / February 11
David Axelrod with Robert Reich / February 19
Kazuo Ishiguro / March 31
Barney Frank / April 2
Sam Keen / April 29
Elizabeth Alexander with Faith Adiele / May 12
Mary Karr / September 22
Patti Smith / November 19
Randall Munroe / December 3
in 2014:
Ian Haney Lopez / February 18
Elizabeth Kolbert/ February 19
Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd / March 27
Ed Catmull with Pete Docter / April 7
Barbara Ehrenreich / April 23
Randall Munroe / September 11
Malcolm Margolin / September 23
Joshua Wolf Shenk / September 25
Vikram Chandra / October 9
Katha Pollitt / October 21
Roman Krznaric / November 10
Richard Blanco with Robert Hass / November 13
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn / December 4
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
Scott Shigeoka with Jason Marsh / Mar 14
in 2023:
Dacher Keltner with Michael Pollan / Jan 23
Matthew Desmond with Piper Kerman / Mar 29
Jane Hirshfield / Sept 13 [video]
Naomi Klein with Annalee Newitz / Sept 20
Adam Mansbach with W. Kamau Bell / Sept 26
Heather Cox Richardson with Rebecca Solnit / Oct 4
Yung Pueblo with Cecily Mak / Oct 18
Teju Cole with Delphine Sims / Oct 23
Roxane Gay with Tommy Orange / Oct 24
Naomi Alderman with Maggie Tokuda-Hall / Nov 6
in 2022:
Leonard Mlodinow with Dr. Michael Shermer / Jan 4
Samantha Hunt with Rita Bullwinkel / May 2
Mónica Guzmán with Peggy Holman / May 26
Obi Kaufmann / Jun 7
Ibram X. Kendi with W. Kamau Bell / Jun 24
Patrick Radden Keefe with Jonah Weiner / Jul 8
Congressman Adam Schiff with Christine Pelosi / Aug 18
Randall Munroe with Adam Savage / Sept 21
Celeste Ng with R. O. Kwon / Oct 19
George Saunders with Samin Nosrat / Nov 2
in 2021:
David P. Barash with David Livingstone Smith / Jan 13
Dr. Euan Angus Ashley with Stephen Quake / Feb 23
Ed Frauenheim / Feb 25
Amanda Ripley with Jason Marsh / Apr 22
Mary Roach with Zach Weinersmith / Sept 14
Martin Ford / Sept 16
Saul Griffith with Laura Fraser and Sam Calisch / Oct 12
Bob Woodward & Robert Costa with Mindy Marqués / Oct 14
David Livingstone Smith / Oct 14
in 2020:
Patricia Marx with Roz Chast / January 23
Shauna Shapiro with Eve Ekman / February 6
Thom Hartmann / February 17
Christine Carter / February 20
Linda Sarsour / March 31
Alexandra Petri with Alexis Coe / June 25
Anne Applebaum / July 27
Shaun King / Aug 12
Chuck Palahniuk / Sept 16
Cory Doctorow with Malkia Devich-Cyril & Meredith Whittaker / Oct 15
David Livingstone Smith with David P. Barash / Oct 20
in 2019:
John Brockman with Chris Anderson, Anca Dragan, and George Dyson / February 27
Cory Doctorow with Richard Kadrey / March 25
Siri Hustvedt with Michael Palmer / March 27
Nathan Englander / April 2
Nathaniel Rich with Mark Danner / April 22
Ani DiFranco with Hilary Saunders / May 14
Thom Hartmann / June 25
Salman Rushdie with Andrew Sean Greer / Sept 20
Naomi Klein with Clara Jeffery / Sept 26
Megan Phelps-Roper with Jeremy Adam Smith / Oct 16
Susan Rice with Miguel Bustos / Oct 16
Marc Brackett / Oct 29
in 2018:
Charles C. Mann with Annalee Newitz / January 23
Sonya Renee Taylor with Denise Jolly / February 12
Morgan Jerkins / February 21
Michael Pollan / June 4
Porochista Khakpour with Achy Obejas / June 26
Don Miguel Ruiz with Barbara Emrys / June 27
Amber Tamblyn with Matthew Zapruder / July 5
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. with Dacher Keltner / August 27
John Carreyrou with Adam Sterling / October 9
in 2017:
Michael Eric Dyson with Frances Dinkelspiel / January 19
Ayelet Waldman / January 24
Chicken John Rinaldi / March 8
Rebecca Solnit with Jeff Chang / March 16
Camille Paglia / March 21
Naomi Klein / June 20
Ellen Ullman with Scott Rosenberg / August 15
Bill Nye with Ransom Stephens / September 10
Richard J. Davidson with Dacher Keltner / September 18
Masha Gessen with Alla Efimova / October 9
Cristina García and Elizabeth Rosner / November 7
Julie Lythcott-Haims with Nicole Sanchez + Harmony Moses / November 30
in 2016:
Mei Fong / February 2
Ellen Malcolm / March 14
John Perkins / March 16
Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman / March 28
Chris Anderson / May 10
Sean Carroll / May 17
Janna Levin / June 21
Michael Krasny / November 9
Jeff Chang / November 29
in 2015:
Christine Carter / January 21
Michael Gazzaniga / February 11
David Axelrod with Robert Reich / February 19
Kazuo Ishiguro / March 31
Barney Frank / April 2
Sam Keen / April 29
Elizabeth Alexander with Faith Adiele / May 12
Mary Karr / September 22
Patti Smith / November 19
Randall Munroe / December 3
in 2014:
Ian Haney Lopez / February 18
Elizabeth Kolbert/ February 19
Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd / March 27
Ed Catmull with Pete Docter / April 7
Barbara Ehrenreich / April 23
Randall Munroe / September 11
Malcolm Margolin / September 23
Joshua Wolf Shenk / September 25
Vikram Chandra / October 9
Katha Pollitt / October 21
Roman Krznaric / November 10
Richard Blanco with Robert Hass / November 13
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn / December 4
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