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:
“They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,
Leaving at last not much besides chronology,
Excepting the post-obits of theology.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)
“The custard is setting; meanwhile
I not only have my own history to worry about
But am forced to fret over insufficient details related to large
Unfinished concepts that can never bring themselves to the point
Of being, with or without my help, if any were forthcoming.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)