History
Past guests have included:
- Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman, House Democrat minority leader, 60th Speaker of the House
- Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor
- Willie Lewis Brown, Jr., San Francisco Mayor
- Alan Cranston, former U.S. Senator for California
- Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
- Anne Lamott, author
- Reuel Gerecht, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute
- Daniel Dennett, professor, Tufts University
- Ward Connerly, founder, American Civil Rights Institute
- Kamala Harris, San Francisco District Attorney
- George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
- Huston Smith, philosopher, author The World's Religions
- Marcus Borg, theologian, author Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
- Thomas Moore, author The Soul’s Religion
- Diana Eck, religion scholar, author A New Religious America
- Elaine Pagels, best-selling author, professor, Princeton University
- Ram Dass, spiritual guru, best-selling author Be Here Now
- Donald Spoto, best-selling author, activist
- Stephen Privett, SJ, president, University of San Francisco
- John Shelby Spong, former Episcopal Bishop and best-selling author
- The Right Reverend NT Wright, Bishop of Durham, England, best-selling author
- Anne Rice, best-selling author
- Rabbi Michael Lerner, Beyt Tikkun Temple
- Jane Goodall, famed primatologist, activist
- Dr. Judea Pearl, Executive Director, Daniel Pearl Foundation
- Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund
- Larry Harvey, founder, director, Burning Man
- Richard Blum, founder American Himalayan Institute
- Van Jones, Executive Director, The Ella Baker Institute
- Jan Wahl, movie critic
- Alissa Quart, writer, New York Times
- Bill Viola, acclaimed video artist, MacArthur Fellow
- Mickey Hart, musician, former percussionist, The Grateful Dead
- Lewis Hyde, author "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art"
- Pamela Rosenberg, general director, San Francisco Opera
- Lotfi Mansouri, general director, San Francisco Opera
- Leonard Nimoy, actor, director, artist
- Diane Middlebrook, professor, Stanford University
- Donald Runnicles, conductor, San Francisco Opera
- Carl Djerassi, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
- Dr. Dean Ornish, founder, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
- Dr. Jay Levy, AIDS researcher, University of California, San Francisco
- Vida Blue, All-star pitcher
- Dr. Randy Schekman, Stem cell researcher, UC Berkeley
- Meredith Maran, Author, Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic
- Dr. Len Saputo, founder, The Health Medicine Forum
- Jack Canfield, founder, Chicken Soup for the Soul
- Dr. Grant Colfax, AIDS researcher, San Francisco Department of Health
- Bill Joy, chief scientist Sun Microsystems
- Paulina Borsook, journalist, author
- Tom Chappell, founder, CEO, Tom's of Maine
- John O'Neil, president, Center for Leadership Renewal
- Mary Bitterman, former Executive Director KQED, Inc.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds.”
—Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)