''In Depth'' is a program that airs monthly on C-SPAN 2 as part of their Book TV programming, and features a different writer each month. Each interview covers the breadth of that author's writing career, and incorporates viewer calls and e-mails. The show is typically broadcast Live television live the first Sunday of each month. The first program was on February 6, 2000, and was a discussion with historian John Lukacs. For the first several years of the show, episodes were not produced during the summer months. From the first episode through March 2019, the standard interview length was three hours. Beginning in April 2019, with Nomi Prins, the standard interview was reduced to two hours. There have been a few exceptions to the practice of featuring one single author, as with the programs featuring the Strand Bookstore, Frank J. Williams Frank Williams and Edna Greene Medford's discussion of Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln (writings on Lincoln), and John K. Wilson and Jonathan Karp's discussions of the writings of Barack Obama and John McCain. Sometimes, the profile will include taped footage of the author's own home or office, so as to give further perspective on how they approach the task of writing. On occasion (as with the programs with Shelby Foote and Harold Bloom ) entire three-hour interviews have been conducted live at the home or office of the featured author. In 2018, the series featured 12 authors best known for their works of fiction, as opposed to their standard practice of interviewing authors best known for nonfiction works.

List of episodes

Note: The dates of original broadcast of each episode are listed below, along with the name of the featured guest. The name of the host is indicated in parenthesis. Each date links to a video of the full interview.

2000

February 6
– John Lukacs (Connie Doebele)
March 5
– Richard Rhodes (Connie Doebele)
April 2
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William F. Buckley Jr. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator. In 1955, he founded ''National Review'', the magazine that stim ...

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Brian Lamb Brian Patrick Lamb (; born October 9, 1941) is an American journalist. He is the founder, executive chairman, and the now-retired CEO of C-SPAN, an American cable network that provides coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. S ...

)
May 7
– Joan Didion (Connie Doebele)
September 3
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Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the ...

(Brian Lamb)
October 1
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Gore Vidal Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and e ...

( Susan Swain)
November 5
– Stephen Ambrose (Connie Doebele)
December 3
– Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Brian Lamb)

2001

January 7
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Norman Podhoretz Norman Podhoretz (; born January 16, 1930) is an American magazine editor, writer, and conservative political commentator, who identifies his views as " paleo- neoconservative".

(Connie Doebele)
February 4
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Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, '' The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed '' S ...

(Susan Swain)
March 4
– James McPherson (Connie Doebele)
April 1
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Studs Terkel Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for '' The Good War'' and is best remembered for his oral hi ...

( Steve Scully)
May 6
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Jacques Barzun Jacques Martin Barzun (; November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, an ...

(Connie Doebele)
September 2
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Shelby Foote Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of '' The Civil War: A Narrative'', a three ...

(Brian Lamb)
October 7
– Richard Brookhiser (Connie Doebele)*
November 4
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David Halberstam David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 April 23, 2007) was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, Korean War, and later ...

(Susan Swain)
December 2
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David McCullough David Gaub McCullough (; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United Stat ...

(Brian Lamb) *Note: Richard Brookhiser's October 7 interview was cut short unexpectedly due to the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bord ...

, which started during his interview. Brookhiser later appeared on ''In Depth'' for a full three hours on April 1, 2012, thus becoming one of the only guests to make two appearances.

2002

January 6
– Cornel West (Connie Doebele)
February 3
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Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have ...

(Steve Scully)
March 3
– Peggy Noonan (Susan Swain)
April 7
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Robert Caro Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote '' The Power ...

(Brian Lamb)
May 5
– bell hooks (Connie Doebele)
June 2
– David Herbert Donald (Steve Scully)
September 1
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Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political sc ...

(Steve Scully)
October 6
– Edmund Morris (Susan Swain)
November 3
– George Will (Brian Lamb)
December 1
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Bob Woodward Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist. He started working for ''The Washington Post'' as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the title of associate editor. While a young reporter for ''The Washingto ...

(Susan Swain)

2003

January 5
– Phyllis Schlafly (Connie Doebele)
February 2
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Martin Gilbert Sir Martin John Gilbert (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of eighty-eight books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish ...

(Connie Doebele)
March 2
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Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. He ...

(Susan Swain)
April 6
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Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Nea ...

(Steve Scully)
May 4
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Harold Bloom Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was described as "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking worl ...

(Susan Swain)
June 1
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Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...

(Brian Lamb)
July 6
– Carlo D'Este (Connie Doebele)
August 3
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Camille Paglia Camille Anna Paglia (; born April 2, 1947) is an American feminist academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. She is critical of many aspects of modern cultur ...

(Connie Doebele)
September 7
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Jeff Shaara Jeffrey M. "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952) is an American novelist and the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara. Biography Jeffrey Shaara was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. He graduate ...

(Steve Scully)
October 5
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Stanley Crouch Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel ''Don't the Moon Look ...

(Susan Swain)
November 2
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John Keegan Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, ...

(Brian Lamb)
December 3
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Douglas Brinkley Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Histor ...

(Steve Scully)

2004

January 4
– Thomas Fleming (Connie Doebele)
February 1
– Ken Auletta (Brian Lamb)
March 7
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Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for ''The New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'' ...

(Connie Doebele)
April 4
– Margaret Macmillan (Connie Doebele)
May 2
–

Niall Ferguson Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964)Biography
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(Connie Doebele)
June 6
– Harold Holzer (Steve Scully)
July 4
– Forrest McDonald (Connie Doebele)
August 1
–

Simon Winchester Simon Winchester (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at ''The Guardian'' newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester ha ...

(Connie Doebele)
September 5
–

Strand Bookstore The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of Union Square.

(Brian Lamb)
October 3
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Angela Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A feminist and a Marxist, Davis was a longtime member o ...

(Connie Doebele)
November 7
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David Hackett Fischer David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935) is University Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have covered topics ranging from large macroeconomic and cultural trends (''Albion's Seed,'' ''The Great Wave'' ...

(Connie Doebele)
December 5
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Tom Wolfe Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)Some sources say 1931; ''The New York Times'' and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and was an American author and journalist widely ...

(Brian Lamb)

2005

January 2
– Garry Wills (Connie Doebele)
February 6
– Charles Murray (Steve Scully)
March 6
– Helen Caldicott (Connie Doebele)
April 3
– Robert Kaplan (Peter Slen)
May 1
–

Thomas Friedman Thomas Loren Friedman (; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for ''The New York Times''. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global ...

(Susan Swain)
June 5
– Richard John Neuhaus (Peter Slen)
July 3
– H.W. Brands (Connie Doebele)
August 7
– William Least Heat-Moon (Connie Doebele)
September 4
–

Harvey Mansfield Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships ...

(Connie Doebele)
October 2
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Sherwin Nuland Sherwin may refer to: Surname: * A. N. Sherwin-White (1911–1993), British historian of Ancient Rome *Adam Sherwin, journalist and a former media correspondent for The Times between 1999 and 2010 * Amy Sherwin (1855–1935), the 'Tasmanian Nightin ...

(Peter Slen)
November 6
–

Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Drea ...

(Steve Scully)
December 4
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John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth ...

(Susan Swain)

2006

January 1
– Ron Powers (Connie Doebele)
February 5
– Taylor Branch (Susan Swain)
March 5
–

Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer. Fukuyama is known for his book '' The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which a ...

(Connie Doebele)
April 2
– Shelby Steele (Peter Slen)
May 7
– Robert Remini (Steve Scully)
June 4
– Mark Bowden (Susan Swain)
July 2
– Joyce Appleby (Connie Doebele)
August 6
– Gary Gallagher (Steve Scully)
September 3
–

Tammy Bruce Tammy K. Bruce (born August 20, 1962) is an American conservative radio host, author, and political commentator. Earlier she had been president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women. She is currently an on-air contr ...

(Peter Slen)
October 1
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John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Hi ...

(Peter Slen)
November 6
–

Ray Kurzweil Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and ...

(Pedro Echevarria)
December 3
–

Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 19 ...

(Connie Doebele)

2007

January 7
– P.J. O'Rourke (Peter Slen)
February 4
–

Dinesh D'Souza Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (; born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American right-wing political commentator, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. He has written over a dozen books, several of them ''New York Times'' best-sellers. In 2012, D' ...

(Connie Doebele)
March 4
– Barbara Ehrenreich (Connie Doebele)
April 1
– Alexander Cockburn (Connie Doebele)
May 6
– Marvin Olasky (Connie Doebele)
June 3
– Lewis Lapham (Connie Doebele)
July 1
– Michael Barone (Connie Doebele)
August 5
– Edward O. Wilson (Pedro Echevarria)
September 2
–

Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books (including five essay collections) on culture, politics, and literature. Born and educated in England, ...

(Peter Slen)
October 7
–

David Horowitz David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer. He is a founder and president of the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website '' FrontPage Magazine''; and director of Dis ...

(Connie Doebele)
November 4
–

Vincent Bugliosi Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr. (; August 18, 1934 – June 6, 2015) was an American prosecutor and author who served as Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office between 1964 and 1972. He became best known for su ...

(Peter Slen)
December 2
– Newt Gingrich (Susan Swain)

2008

January 6
– Nell Irvin Painter (Connie Doebele)
February 3
–

David Levering Lewis David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and a professor of history at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and ...

(Peter Slen)
March 2
– John McWhorter (Peter Slen)
April 6
–

Michael Eric Dyson Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, ordained minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Described by Michael A. Fletch ...

(Pedro Echevarria)
May 4
–

Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awa ...

(Peter Slen)
June 1
– George Weigel (Connie Doebele)
July 6
– Katha Pollitt (Pedro Echevarria)
August 3
– Ralph Peters (Steve Scully)
September 7
–

John K. Wilson John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

and

Jonathan Karp Jonathan Karp is an American book editor, publisher, and writer. Prior to being named publisher of Simon & Schuster in 2010, he was the founder of Twelve, an imprint at the Hachette Book Group, and the editor-in-chief of Random House. He was the ...

(Peter Slen)
November 2
–

Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. P ...

(Connie Doebele)
December 7
– Kevin Phillips (Peter Slen)

2009

From this point forward, all interviews were hosted by Peter Slen, unless otherwise indicated.
January 4
– Bill Gertz
February 1
– Frank Williams and

Edna Greene Medford Edna Greene Medford is a professor of history at Howard University who specializes in 19th-century African-American history. She is a member of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundationbr>and is on the Executive Committee of The ...

February 28
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Ronald Takaki Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki (April 12, 1939 – May 26, 2009) was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in pre-statehood Hawaii, Takaki studied at the College of Wooster and completed his doctorate in American history at t ...

(Pedro Echevarria)
April 5
–

Robert Higgs Robert Higgs (born 1 February 1944) is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New institutional economics, and the Austrian school of economics; and describes himself as a " libertarian anarch ...

May 3
– Christopher Buckley
June 7
–

Bill Ayers William Charles Ayers (; born December 26, 1944) rose to prominence during the 1960s as a domestic terrorist. During the 1960s, Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground militant group, described by the FBI as a terrorist group. In 196 ...

July 5
– John Ferling (Susan Swain)
August 2
– Juan Williams (Steve Scully)
September 6
– Jonathan Kozol (Connie Doebele)
October 4
– Hugh Hewitt
November 1
– Temple Grandin
December 6
–

Joy Hakim Joy Hakim (born January 16, 1931) is an American author who has written a ten-volume history of the United States, '' A History of US'', and ''Freedom: A History of US'' (a trade book to accompany a 16-part PBS series), all published by Oxford Uni ...

2010

January 3
–

Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin (; Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative political commentator. She was a Fox News contributor and in May 2020 joined Newsmax TV. Malkin has written seven books and founded the conservative websites T ...

February 7
– Paul Johnson
March 7
– T.R. Reid
April 4
–

John Dean John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an American former attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal ...

(Steve Scully)
May 2
–

Pat Buchanan Patrick Joseph Buchanan (; born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician, and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, ...

June 6
–

Martha Nussbaum Martha Craven Nussbaum (; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philoso ...

July 4
– Bill Bennett (Pedro Echevarria)
August 1
–

Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. The son of Lebanese immigrants to the U ...

September 5
– Gordon Wood
October 3
–

Michio Kaku Michio Kaku (, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is ...

November 7
–

Jonah Goldberg Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative syndicated columnist, author, political analyst, and commentator. The founding editor of ''National Review Online'', from 1998 until 2019 he was an editor at '' National Rev ...

December 5
–

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and W ...

2011

January 2
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Phyllis Bennis Phyllis Bennis (born January 19, 1951) is an American Jewish writer, activist, and political commentator. Focusing mainly on issues related to the Middle East and the United Nations, she is a strong critic of Israel and the United States an ...

February 6
–

R. Emmett Tyrell Robert Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (born December 14, 1943) is an American conservative magazine editor, book author and columnist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of ''The American Spectator'' and writes with the byline "R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr." Bac ...

March 6
–

Pauline Maier Pauline Alice Maier (née Rubbelke; April 27, 1938 – August 12, 2013) was a revisionist historian of the American Revolution, whose work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolut ...

April 3
– Ishmael Reed
May 1
– Tibor Machan (Susan Swain)
June 5
– Eric Posner
July 3
– Linda Hogan
August 7
–

Ann Coulter Ann Hart Coulter (; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative media pundit, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She became known as a media pundit in the late 1990s, appearing in print and on cable news as an outspoken critic ...

August 10
–

Ellis Cose Ellis is a surname of Welsh and English origin. Retrieved 21 January 2014 An independent French origin of the surname is said to derive from the phrase fleur-de-lis. Surname A *Abe Ellis (Stargate), a fictional character in the TV series ''Sta ...

October 2
–

Michael Moore Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author and left-wing activist. His works frequently address the topics of globalization and capitalism. Moore won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ...

November 6
– Ben Mezrich
December 4
– David Brooks (Steve Scully)

2012

January 1
–

Chris Hedges Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and commentator. In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for ''The Christian Science Mo ...

February 5
– Mark Steyn
March 4
– Randall Kennedy
April 1
– Richard Brookhiser
May 6
–

Tom Brokaw Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American retired network television journalist and author. He first served as the co-anchor of ''The Today Show'' from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of ' ...

June 3
–

Anna Quindlen Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist. Her '' New York Times'' column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a r ...

July 1
– David Pietrusza
August 1
– Julianne Malveaux
September 2
–

Michael Beschloss Michael Richard Beschloss (born November 30, 1955) is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency. He is the author of nine books on the presidency. Early life Beschloss was born in Chicago, grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois ...

October 7
– Steven Johnson
November 4
– Kenneth Davis
December 2
–

Tom Coburn Thomas Allen Coburn (March 14, 1948 – March 28, 2020) was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator for Oklahoma from 2005, until his resignation in 2015. A Republican, he previously served as a United St ...

2013

January 6
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Donald Barlett Donald L. Barlett (born July 17, 1936) is an American investigative journalist and author who often collaborates with James B. Steele. According to '' The Washington Journalism Review'', they were a better investigative reporting team than even B ...

and James Steele
February 3
– Randall Robinson
March 3
– Larry Schweikart
April 7
–

Amy Goodman Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement, Morocco's occupati ...

May 5
– Melanie Phillips
June 2
– Rick Atkinson
July 7
–

Mary Roach Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published six New York Times bestsellers: '' Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers'' (2003), '' Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife'' ...

August 4
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Ben Carson Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, ...

September 1
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Ben Shapiro Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American attorney, businessman, columnist, conservative political commentator, and media personality. At age 17, he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States ...

October 6
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John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashvill ...

November 3
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Kitty Kelley Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, a ...

December 1
– Christina Hoff Sommers

2014

January 5
–

Mark Levin Mark Reed Levin (; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality. He is the host of syndicated radio show '' The Mark Levin Show'', as well as ''Life, Liberty & Levin'' on Fox News. Levin worked in the admini ...

February 2
– Bonnie Morris
March 2
–

Peniel Joseph Peniel E. Joseph is an American scholar, teacher, and public voice on race issues especially the history of the Black power movement. He holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in at ...

April 6
– Bing West
May 4
–

Luis J. Rodriguez Luis Javier Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. He was the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Rodriguez is recognized as a major figure in contemporary Chicano literature, identifying himself ...

June 1
– Amity Shlaes
July 6
–

Reza Aslan Reza Aslan ( fa, رضا اصلان, ; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology of religion, writer, and television host. A convert to evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam b ...

August 3
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Ron Paul Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, activist, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, as we ...

September 7
– Mary Frances Berry
October 5
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Joan Biskupic Joan Biskupic ( hr, Biskupić; born ) is an American journalist, author, and lawyer who has covered the United States Supreme Court since 1989. Early life and education Biskupic is one of nine siblings born to a Catholic family of Croatian and ...

November 2
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Michael Korda Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City. Early years Born in London, Michael Korda is the son of English actress Gertrude Musgrove and the Hungarian ...

December 7
– Arthur Brooks

2015

January 4
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Tavis Smiley Tavis Smiley (; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to ...

February 1
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Walter Isaacson Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and professor. He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, ...

March 1
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Lani Guinier Carol Lani Guinier (; April 19, 1950 – January 7, 2022) was an American educator, legal scholar, and civil rights theorist. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured p ...

April 5
– Ronald Kessler
May 3
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Jon Ronson Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker whose works include '' Them: Adventures with Extremists'' (2001), '' The Men Who Stare at Goats'' (2004), and ''The Psychopath Test'' (2011). He has been des ...

June 7
– Lawrence Wright
July 5
– Peter Schweizer (Steve Scully)
August 2
– Medea Benjamin
September 6
– Lynne Cheney
October 4
– Thom Hartmann
November 1
– Walter Williams
December 6
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Cokie Roberts Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019) was an American journalist and author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio, PB ...

2016

January 3
– David Maraniss
February 7
– Eric Burns
March 6
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Jane Mayer Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1995. She has written for the publication about money in politics; government prosecution of whistleblowers; the Uni ...

April 3
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Steve Forbes Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (; born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician who is the editor-in-chief of ''Forbes'', a business magazine. He is the son of longtime ''Forbes'' publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grands ...

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May 1
– Wil Haygood
June 5
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July 3
– Sebastian Junger
August 7
– Jeffrey Toobin (Steve Scully)
September 4
– Dennis Prager
October 2
– Gerald Horne
November 6
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Kate Andersen Brower Kate Andersen Brower is an American journalist and author who has written three books about the White House, two of which have been ''New York Times'' bestsellers, ''The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House'', ''First Women: The ...

William Seale William Seale was an American historian and author whose primary interest was in historic architecture, particularly that of the White House, state capitols, and historic governors' mansions, who was "instrumental in preserving many historic str ...

, and

Alvin Felzenberg Alvin S. Felzenberg is an American author, columnist, consultant, educator, historian, public official, and spokesperson. A resident of Palm Beach, Florida and Washington, D.C., he served with the 9/11 Commission and has written books on American ...

, discussing U.S. presidents
December 4
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Steve Twomey ''yes'Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen Notable people with the name include: steve jops * Steve Abbott (disambiguation), several people * Steve Adams (disambiguation), several people * Steve ...

, Eri Hotta, and Craig Nelson, discussing the

Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawa ...

*Note: Steve Forbes was scheduled to be the guest for three hours on April 3, but on the way to Washington, D.C. that morning he was a passenger on Amtrak train #89, which derailed near Chester, Pennsylvania. Forbes was unhurt and returned to New York. Just after noon Eastern Time, he spoke via telephone with C-SPAN host Steve Scully for approximately 14 minutes about that experience. After the interview, C-SPAN 2 aired a program recorded June 18, 2014, in which Forbes discusses his book ''Money'' at a Washington, D.C. bookstore. Forbes eventually was an ''In Depth'' guest for a full three hours on June 5, 2016.

2017

January 1, 2017
– April Ryan, Eddie Glaude, and David Maraniss on the

Presidency of Barack Obama Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican ...

(Steve Scully)
February 5, 2017
– Nick Adams
March 5, 2017
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Dave Barry David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the '' Miami Herald'' from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comi ...

April 2, 2017
– Annie Jacobsen
May 7, 2017
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson ( or ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a p ...

June 4, 2017
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Matt Taibbi Matthew Colin Taibbi (; born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. A former contributing editor for ''Rolling Stone'', he is an author of several books, co-host o ...

July 2, 2017
– Herb Boyd
August 6, 2017
– KrisAnne Hall
September 3, 2017
– Eric Metaxas
October 1, 2017
– Lynne Olson
November 5, 2017
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Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) Gale Biography In Context. is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to '' Vanity Fair'' since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. H ...

(Steve Scully)
December 3, 2017
– Cornel West and Robert George

2018

For 2018, the program broke its tradition of interviewing nonfiction authors to interview best-selling fiction writers, focusing on authors of historical fiction, science and national security thrillers, and social commentary. The phrase “2018 Fiction Edition” was added to the show’s logo.
January 7, 2018
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David Ignatius David Reynolds Ignatius (born May 26, 1950) is an American journalist and novelist. He is an associate editor and columnist for ''The Washington Post''. He has written eleven novels, including '' Body of Lies'', which director Ridley Scott adap ...

February 4, 2018
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Colson Whitehead Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work ''The Intuitionist''; '' The Underground Railroad'' (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Awar ...

March 4, 2018
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April 1, 2018
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Walter Mosley Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private i ...

(Greta Brawner)
May 6, 2018
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David Baldacci David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960) is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers. Biography Early life and education David Baldacci was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. H ...

(Susan Swain)
June 3, 2018
– Gish Jen
July 1, 2018
– Brad Thor
August 5, 2018
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Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog '' Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent o ...

(Pedro Echevarria)
September 2, 2018
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Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for '' Miracle's Boys'', and her Newbery Honor-winning titles '' Brown Girl Dreaming'', ''After Tupac and D Foster'', '' ...

October 7, 2018
– Geraldine Brooks
November 4, 2018
– Jodi Picoult
December 2, 2018
– Brad Meltzer (Steve Scully)

2019

January 6, 2019
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David Corn David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American political journalist and author. He is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for '' Mother Jones'' and is best known as a cable television commentator. Corn worked at ''The Nation'' from 1987 to 20 ...

February 3, 2019
– Dave Zirin
March 3, 2019
– Heather Mac Donald
April 7, 2019
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Nomi Prins Nomi Prins is an American economist, author, journalist, and public speaker who writes about Wall Street and the US economy. Before becoming a journalist and public speaker, Prins worked in the finance industry. She was a managing director at ...

May 5, 2019
– Kathleen Hall Jamieson
June 2, 2019
– Evan Thomas
July 7, 2019
– Paul Kengor
August 4, 2019
– Lee Edwards
September 1, 2019
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Joanne Freeman Joanne B. Freeman (born April 27, 1962) is a U.S. historian and tenured Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Having researched Alexander Hamilton both independently and collaboratively with mentors and peers for more than ...

October 6, 2019
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Naomi Klein Naomi A. Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism, organized labour, left-wing politics and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism ...

(Steve Scully)
November 3, 2019
– Imani Perry
December 1, 2019
– Jason Riley (Steve Scully)

2020

January 5, 2020
– Sebastian Gorka
February 2, 2020
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Deirdre McCloskey Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald N. McCloskey; September 11, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is the distinguished professor of economics, history, english, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct p ...

March 1, 2020
– April Ryan
April 1, 2020
– Highlights show
May 3, 2020
– Highlights show
June 7, 2020
– Yuval Levin
July 5, 2020
– James Stavridis
August 2, 2020
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Wes Moore Westley Watende Omari Moore (born October 15, 1978) is an American politician, investment banker, author, and television producer. He is the governor-elect of Maryland, after defeating Republican Dan Cox in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial elec ...

September 6, 2020
– Ralph Reed
October 4, 2020
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Jill Lepore Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American ...

November 1, 2020
– 20th Anniversary Commemoration
December 6, 2020
– Eddie Glaude

2021

*January 2, 2021 – N/A
February 7, 2021
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Robert W. Merry Robert W. Merry (born 1946) is an American journalist, publishing executive and commentator. Early life Robert W. Merry was born in 1946 in Tacoma, WA. He served three years in the U.S. Army, including two years as a counterintelligence special ...

March 7, 2021
– Elizabeth Kolbert
April 4, 2021
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Harriet Washington Harriet A. Washington is an American writer and medical ethicist. She is the author of the book ''Medical Apartheid'', which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She has also written books on environmental racism and the ...

May 2, 2021
– Craig Shirley*
June 6, 2021
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Max Hastings Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (; born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of ''The Daily Telegraph'', and editor of the ''Evening Standard' ...

July 4, 2021
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Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958) is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts & Sciences. She i ...

*August 2021 - None#
September 5, 2021
– Carol Swain
October 3, 2021
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born September 10, 1938) is an American historian, writer, and activist, known for her 2014 book '' An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States''. Early life and education Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1938 to ...

November 7, 2021
- Ross Douthat
December 5, 2021
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*Author Ross Douthat was announced as the scheduled guest for this date several times during the previous week. Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley appeared instead. No explanation was given for the change. The C-SPAN web page announcing Douthat's appearance
May 2, 2021
was still retrievable on May 3, 2021, the day following the broadcast with Shirley. Mr. Douthat appeared in a later episode on November 7, 2021. #Former independent counsel, U.S. solicitor general, and federal judge

Ken Starr Kenneth Winston Starr (July 21, 1946 – September 13, 2022) was an American lawyer and judge who authored the Starr Report, which led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He headed an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, know ...

was supposed to appear on the program on August 1, 2021, but the episode was preempted when the U.S. Senate held a rare Sunday session to debate a spending bill. He was never rescheduled to appear.

2022

January 2, 2022
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Allen Guelzo Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian who serves as Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He ...

February 6, 2022
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Sheryll Cashin Sheryll D. Cashin is a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center. She was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists. Her parents' role in the civil rights movement impressed on her the importanc ...

*March 2022—None*
April 5, 2022
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May 1, 2022
-- Lawrence Kudlow
June 5, 2022
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Sam Quinones :''The surname Quinones is of Spanish language origin. In Spanish, it is spelled Quiñones.'' Sam Quinones ( ;) is an American journalist from Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his reporting in Mexico and on Mexicans in the United S ...

July 3, 2022
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Carol Anderson Carol Anderson (born June 17, 1959) is an American academic. She is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Her research focuses on public policy with regard to race, justice, and equality. Education ...

August 7, 2022
-- Larry Elder
September 4, 2022
-- Steven Hayward (John McArdle)
October 2, 2022
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Dan Abrams Daniel Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is an American media entrepreneur, television host, legal commentator, and author. He is currently the host of the prime-time show ''Dan Abrams Live'' on NewsNation, ''On Patrol: Live'' on Reelz and ''The Dan Ab ...

November 6, 2022
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Mark Updegrove Mark K. Updegrove (born August 25, 1961) is an American author, historian, journalist, and Presidential Historian for ABC News. He is the president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation in Austin, Texas. Previously, he served as the director of the Lyndon ...

December 4, 2022
-- Peter Baker and

Susan Glasser Susan B. Glasser (born January 14, 1969) is an American journalist and news editor. She writes the online column "Letter from Biden’s Washington" in ''The New Yorker'', where she is a staff writer. She is the author, with her husband Peter Bak ...

*Author

was scheduled to appear on March 5, 2022, but communication between C-SPAN'S Washington, DC studio and Mr. Quinones's studio in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and t ...

could not be established. He appeared on a later episode aired June 5, 2022.

2023

January 1, 2023
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February 5, 2023
-- Lance Morrow

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