Commonwealth Club of California

Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language and Politics

Naomi Klein, Journalist, Syndicated Columnist; Author, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage: Mythbusters

Christopher Hitchens: Contributing Editor and Columnist, Vanity Fair; Media Fellow, Hoover Institution; Author, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google

Ben Stein, Attorney, Professor, Author, Actor

Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food

Joseph Stiglitz: Winner, 2001 Nobel Prize Winner for Economics; Author, Freefall

Anthony Bourdain, TV host, chef, author of Kitchen Confidential

Eric Schlosser

James A. Baker III, Former U.S. Secretary of State. Ethical Imperative of America’s Involvement in the World

Thomas Ricks, Pentagon Reporter, The Washington Post; Author, Fiasco, and The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq 2006-2008

Barbara Ehrenreich: Against Positive Thinking

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage: Bust a Myth

Listen Up, Mr. President; Helen Thomas on White House journalism

Eliot Spitzer: The Cataclysm of 2008-2009

Nancy Pelosi: In conversation with Dr. Gloria Duffy

John Yoo, Law Professor, UC Berkeley; Author, Crisis and Command

Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University Law School; Founder, Creative Commons

Michael Kinsley, Columnist, Time Magazine; Founding Editor, Slate; Author, Creative Capitalism

Jonah Lehrer: How Creativity Works (4/5/12)

Anthony Bourdain, chef, author, TV host of “No Reservations”

Robert Baer, Former CIA Operative; Author, Sleeping with the Devil and See No Evil

T.R. Reid: Can We Really Fix U.S. Health Care?

Governance in California: From Greatness to Gridlock in 50 Years

Arianna Huffington; Co-founder and Editor in Chief, The Huffington Post; Author, Right is Wrong

David Gergen: Will America Remain a Great Nation?

Admiral Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence. An Inside Look into America's Intelligence Apparatus

Madeleine K. Albright's Memo to the President

Scott McClellan, Former White House Press Secretary (2003-2006); Communication Strategist; Author, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House Washington's Culture of Deception

The Politics Of Food: What We Eat And Why It Matters

David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Author, The Politics of Freedom

Robert Reich, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Author, Supercapitalism

Rick Steves, Producer of "Iran: Yesterday & Today", Writer, Producer, Travel Host; Europe Through The Back Door

Meg Whitman: From Running eBay to Running California

Why “Y” Matters: The Male Brain. Dr. Louann Brizendine, Author of The Female Brain and The Male Brain

Alfred Regnery, Publisher, The American Spectator; Author, The Ascendance of American Conservatism

P. J. O’Rourke; Humorist; Author, On the Wealth of Nations

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist; Author, The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox

Garry Wills: The Extra-Constitutional Executive

Robert Reich, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Author, The Work of Nations and Supercapitalism; Economic Advisor to President Barack Obama; Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley

The Rosetta Project: Documenting All Human Language for the Next 10,000 Years. Laura Welcher & Alexander Rose

Neutralizing the Bush Legacy. Vincent Warren-Executive Director of The Center for Constitutional Rights

Frank Luntz: What Americans Really Want… Really

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Author, Death by Black Hole, and Other Cosmic Quandries

Robert Legvold and Gloria Duffy, Rethinking U.S. Russia Policy: A Way Forward in the Obama Era

Willie Brown: 2010 Lecture on Political Trends

Zeke Emanuel, Chair, Dept. of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health; Author, Healthcare, Guaranteed

Robert Reich: Professor; Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Author, The Work of Nations

The Evolution of the Dominant Animal, Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies