2007

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November 2007

• Episode 3138 (11/1/2007) – Walter Kirn (Author and Contributor to The Atlantic Monthly)

October 2007

• Episode 3137 (10/31/2007) – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (former Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell)
• Episode 3136 (10/30/2007) – Dr. Craig Venter (Author, ‘A Life Decoded’)
• Episode 3135 (10/29/2007) – Richard Berman (Executive Director, Center for Consumer Freedom)
• Episode 3134 (10/18/2007) – Craig Newmark (Founder of Craigslist)
• Episode 3133 (10/17/2007) – Garry Kasparov (Chess grand master and author, ‘How Life Imitates Chess’)
• Episode 3132 (10/16/2007) – Bob Drogin (Author, ‘Curveball: Spies, Lies and The Con Man Who Caused A War’)
• Episode 3131 (10/15/2007) – Paul Glastris (Editor-in-Chief, ‘The Washington Monthly’)
• Episode 3130 (10/11/2007) – Chris Jordan (Photographer)
• Episode 3129 (10/10/2007) – General Wesley Clark (Retired general and author, ‘A Time To Lead’)
• Episode 3128 (10/9/2007) – Stephen Colbert (Comedian and author, ‘I Am America (And So Can You!)’)
• Episode 3127 (10/8/2007) – George Saunders (Author, ‘The Braindead Megaphone’)
• Episode 3126 (10/4/2007) – John Kao (Innovator and author, ‘Innovation Nation’)
• Episode 3125 (10/3/2007) – Dan Savage (Syndicated sex advice columnist). Jim Lovell (NASA astronaut and author, ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’)
• Episode 3124 (10/2/2007) – John Mearscheimer (Author, ‘The Israel Lobby’)
• Episode 3123 (10/1/2007) – Charlie Savage (Author, ‘Takeover’)

September 2007

• Episode 3122 (9/27/2007) – David Schwartz (Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image)
• Episode 3121 (9/26/2007) – Tony Bennett (Musician)
• Episode 3120 (9/25/2007) – John Grisham (Author, ‘Playing for Pizza’)
• Episode 3119 (9/24/2007) – Thomas L. Friedman (Author, ‘The World Is Flat’)
• Episode 3118 (9/20/2007) – Jeffrey Toobin (Legal Analyst, Author of ‘The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.’)
• Episode 3117 (9/19/2007) – Naomi Wolf (Author, ‘The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot.’)
• Episode 3116 (9/18/2007) – Barry Manilow (Musician). Susan Sarandon (Actress, ‘Mr. Woodcock’ and ‘In The Valley of Elah.’)
• Episode 3115 (9/13/2007) – James Martin (Priest and Author, ‘My Life With Saints.’) Ed Begley, Jr., (Actor, green living activist, HGTV star: ‘Living With Ed’)
• Episode 3114 (9/12/2007) – Joel Klein (Chancellor, New York City Department of Education)
• Episode 3113 (9/11/2007) – Katie Bruggeman (Colbert Report executive assistant). Garrison Keillor (Author, ‘Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon.’)
• Episode 3112 (9/10/2007) – Bjørn Lomborg (Author, ‘Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming’)

August 2007

• Episode 3111 (8/23/2007) – Thomas Ricks (Journalist, Author of ‘Fiasco.’) Dr. Jerald Vizzone, D.O.
• Episode 3110 (8/22/2007) – Sir Richard Branson (Founder, Virgin Airlines)
• Episode 3109 (8/21/2007) – Dr. Michael Shermer (Author, “Why Darwin Matters.” Publisher, ‘The Skeptic Magazine’)
• Episode 3108 (8/20/2007) – Nathan Sawaya (LEGO sculptor)
• Episode 3107 (8/16/2007) – Andrew Keen (Author, “The Cult of the Amateur”)
• Episode 3106 (8/15/2007) – Michael Wallis (Author, “The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate”)
• Episode 3105 (8/14/2007) – Jerry Miller (200th prisoner freed by The Innocence Project). Dr. Spencer Wells (The National Geographic Genographic project, ‘The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey’)
• Episode 3104 (8/13/2007) – Michael Jacobson (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
• Episode 3103 (8/9/2007) – Judd Apatow (Producer, ‘Superbad’)
• Episode 3102 (8/8/2007) – Tina Brown (Author, ‘The Diana Chronicles’)
• Episode 3101 (8/7/2007) – Ian Bogost (Video Game Designer)
• Episode 3100 (8/2/2007) – Michael Behe (Author, “The Edge of Evolution”)
• Episode 3099 (8/1/2007) – Dr. Jerald Vizzone, D.O. Michael Beschloss (Author, “Presidential Courage”)

July 2007

• Episode 3098 (7/31/2007) – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Author, “Failing America’s Faithful – How Today’s Churches Are Mixing God With Politics And Losing Their Way”)
• Episode 3097 (7/30/2007) – Evan Osnos, (Beijing Bureau Chief, ‘The Chicago Tribune’)
• Episode 3096 (7/26/2007) – Aaron Houston (Marijuana Policy Project), Bob Shrum – (Political strategist)
• Episode 3095 (7/25/2007)- Charles Kaiser (Author, “The Gay Metropolis”)
• Episode 3094 (7/24/2007) – Anthony Romero (Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union. Author, ‘In Defense of Our America’)
• Episode 3093 (7/23/2007) – Simon Schama (Host, PBS’s Simon Schama’s Power of Art, and author, ‘The Power of Art’)
• Episode 3092 (7/19/2007) – Michael Moore (Filmmaker – “Sicko”), Frank Sulloway – (Author – ‘Born To Rebel’)
• Episode 3091 (7/18/2007) – John Mellencamp – (Singer)
• Episode 3090 (7/17/2007) – Mark Moffett (Smithsonian Institute entomologist and photojournalist)
• Episode 3089 (7/16/2007) – Richard Florida (Author, ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’), Ben Nelson (Nebraska senator)

June 2007

• Episode 3088 (6/28/2007) – Doug Bailey (Co-founder, Unity 08)
• Episode 3087 (6/27/2007) – Daniel Gilbert (Author, ‘Stumbling On Happiness’)
• Episode 3086 (6/26/2007) – David France (Columnist, ‘New York’ magazine)
• Episode 3085 (6/25/2007) – Thomas Hayden (Author, ‘Ending the War in Iraq’)
• Episode 3084 (6/21/2007) – Vincent Bugliosi (Author, ‘Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy’)
• Episode 3083 (6/20/2007) – Will Schwalbe (Author, ‘Send’)
• Episode 3082 (6/19/2007) – Anne-Marie Slaughter (Author, ‘The Idea That Is America’)
• Episode 3081 (6/18/2007) -Toby Keith (Country music star)
• Episode 3080 (6/14/2007) – Dan Smith (Author, ‘Muses, Madmen, and Prophets’)
• Episode 3079 (6/13/2007) – Ron Paul (Republican presidential primary candidate)
• Episode 3078 (6/12/2007) – Josh Wolf (Video blogger)
• Episode 3077 (6/11/2007) – Dr. Michael Gershon (Author, ‘The Second Brain’)
• Episode 3076 (6/7/2007) – Cullen Murphy (Author, ‘Are We Rome?’)
• Episode 3075 (6/6/2007) – Carl Bernstein (Author, ‘A Woman In Charge’)
• Episode 3074 (6/5/2007) – Jessica Valenti (Author, ‘Full Frontal Feminism’)
• Episode 3073 (6/4/2007) – Leon Botstein (President, Bard College)

May 2007

• Episode 3072 (5/24/2007) – Jimmy Wales (Founder, Wikipedia)
• Episode 3071 (5/23/2007) – Bob Deans (Author, ‘The River Where America Began’)
• Episode 3070 (5/22/2007) – John Amaechi (Former NBA player and Author, ‘Man in the Middle’)
• Episode 3069 (5/21/2007) – Jared Diamond (Author, ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’)
• Episode 3068 (5/17/2007) – Tom Delay (Former House Majority Leader and Author, ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’)
• Episode 3067 (5/16/2007) – Howard Dean (Chairman, Democratic National Committee)
• Episode 3066 (5/15/2007) – Walter Isaacson (Author, ‘Einstein: His Life and Universe ‘
• Episode 3065 (5/14/2007) – William Langewiesche (Author, ‘The Atomic Bazaar’
• Episode 3064 (5/10/2007) – Jann Wenner (Founder, ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine)
• Episode 3063 (5/9/2007) – Jane Fonda (Actress, “Georgia Rules”)
• Episode 3062 (5/8/2007) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author, “The Black Swan”)
• Episode 3061 (5/7/2007) – Richard Preston (Author, “The Wild Trees”)
• Episode 3060 (5/3/2007) – Conn Iggulden (Author, “The Dangerous Book for Boys”)
• Episode 3059 (5/2/2007) – Gina Kolata (Author, “Rethinking Thin”)
• Episode 3058 (5/1/2007) – Malcolm Gladwell (Author, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”)

April 2007

• Episode 3057 (4/30/2007) – Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astronomist), Bill Bradley (Author, “The New American Story”)
• Episode 3056 (4/26/2007) – Tom Wolfe (Author, “Bonfire of the Vanities “)
• Episode 3055 (4/25/2007) – David Walker (US Comptroller General)
• Episode 3054 (4/24/2007) – Dr. Andrew Weil (Author, “Healthy Aging”)
• Episode 3053 (4/23/2007) – Russell Simmons (Author, “Do You!”)
• Episode 3052 (4/19/2007) – Sean Penn (Actor), Robert Pinsky (former U.S. Poet Laureate.)
• Episode 3051 (4/18/2007) – Paulina Porizkova (Author, “A Model Summer”)
• Episode 3050 (4/17/2007) – Elaine Pagels (Author, “Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity”)
• Episode 3049 (4/16/2007) – Senator John Kerry (Author, “This Moment On Earth”)
• Episode 3048 (4/12/2007) – Dr. Richard Land (President of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), of the Southern Baptist Convention; Author, “The Divided States of America”)
• Episode 3047 (4/11/2007) – Vali Nasr (Author, “The Shia Revival”)
• Episode 3046 (4/10/2007) – Jeannette Walls (Author, “The Glass Castle”)
• Episode 3045 (4/9/2007) – Katrina vanden Heuvel (Writer, “The Nation” magazine), Colin Beavan (“Step it up 2007″)

March 2007

• Episode 3044 (3/29/2007) – Clive James (Author, “Cultural Amnesia”)
• Episode 3043 (3/28/2007) – Jabari Asim (Author, “The N-Word”)
• Episode 3042 (3/27/2007) -Madeleine Albright (Former Secretary of State), James Fallows (Author, “Blind into Baghdad”)
• Episode 3041 (3/26/2007) – John Perry Barlow (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Episode 3040 (3/22/2007) – Katie Couric (anchor of ‘CBS Evening News’)
• Episode 3039 (3/21/2007) – Benjamin Barber (University of Maryland Professor; Author, “Consumed”)
• Episode 3038 (3/20/2007) – Willie Nelson (Musician)
• Episode 3037 (3/19/2007) – Dr. Jerome Groopman (Author, “How Doctors Think”)
• Episode 3036 (3/15/2007) – Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Author, “Infidel”)
• Episode 3035 (3/14/2007) – Ed Viesturs (Author, “No Shortcuts to the Top”)
• Episode 3034 (3/13/2007) – Michael Eric Dyson (Author, “Debating Race”)
• Episode 3033 (3/12/2007) – Nicholas Kristof (NY Times Columnist)
• Episode 3032 (3/8/2007) – Ted Koppel (Discovery Channel news)
• Episode 3031 (3/7/2007) – Michael Specter (Writer, ‘The New Yorker’)
• Episode 3030 (3/6/2007) – Mark Frauenfelder (Editor, “Make” Magazine)
• Episode 3029 (3/5/2007) – Ben & Jerry (Ice Cream Company founders), Mara Vanderslice (Founder – Common Good Strategies)
• Episode 3028 (3/1/2007) – Larry King (CNN Pundit)

February 2007

• Episode 3027 (2/28/2007) – Dr. Nina Jablonski (Author, “Skin”)
• Episode 3026 (2/27/2007) – Dr. Craig Venter (Founder – Synthetic Genomics)
• Episode 3025 (2/26/2007) – Zev Chafets (Author, “A Match Made In Heaven”)
• Episode 3024 (2/15/2007) – Shashi Tharoor (Former UN Undersecretary General)
• Episode 3023 (2/14/2007) – Lance Armstrong (Cyclist)
• Episode 3022 (2/13/2007) – “Colbert Report Special Report: Apocolypse Mao: Murdered by the Orient’s Success” – Sheryl WuDunn (Editor – New York Times)
• Episode 3021 (2/12/2007) – Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton University professor and environmental scientist)
• Episode 3020 (2/8/2007) – Chris Hedges (Author, “American Fascists”)
• Episode 3019 (2/7/2007) – Steven Pinker (Prof. of Psychology, Harvard University and author – “The Blank Slate”)
• Episode 3018 (2/6/2007) – Charlie LeDuff (Author – “US Guys”)
• Episode 3017 (2/5/2007) – Wendy Kopp (President – Teach for America)
• Episode 3016 (2/1/2007) – Sen. Chuch Schumer (New York Senator and Author – “Positively American”)

January 2007

• Episode 3015 (1/31/2007) – Jed Babbin (Editor – ‘Human Events’)
• Episode 3014 (1/30/2007) – Donna Shalala (President – University of Miami)
• Episode 3013 (1/29/2007) – Barry Lando (Author – “Web of Deceit”)
• Episode 3012 (1/25/2007) – Mike Wallace (Anchor – 60 Minutes)
• Episode 3011 (1/24/2007) – Lou Dobbs (CNN Anchor)
• Episode 3010 (1/23/2007) – Michael Steele (Former Republican Lt. Gov. of MD)
• Episode 3009 (1/22/2007) – Tom Schaller (Author “Whistling Past Dixie”)
• Episode 3008 (1/18/2007) – Bill O’Reilly (Fox News pundit, Author – “Culture Warrior”)
• Episode 3007 (1/17/2007) – Richard Clarke (Author – “Breakpoint”)
• Episode 3006 (1/16/2007) – Dinesh D’Souza (Author, “The Enemy At Home”)
• Episode 3005 (1/15/2007) – Alex Kuczynski, (Author – “Beauty Junkies”)
• Episode 3004 (1/11/2007) – Judy Woodruff (PBS Special “Generation Next”)
• Episode 3003 (1/10/2007) – David Kamp (Author, “The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation ”)
• Episode 3002 (1/9/2007) – Jim Cramer (CNBC host and author – “Mad Money”)
• Episode 3001 (1/8/2007) – Ethan Nadelman (Author, “Policing the Globe”)