Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he studies and writes on current events and political trends with an emphasis on California's political landscape, discusses the recent California elections with John Batchelor.

Bill Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, and former U.S. assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development, discusses the California gubernatorial candidates’ positions on education with KQED’s Michael Krasny.

Abbas Milani is a Hoover research fellow, codirector of the Iran Democracy Project, a member of the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford. His most recent book, The Myth of the Great Satan: The Future of U.S.-Iran Relations, was the subject of his discussion on the John Batchelor Show.

John Taylor is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford. An elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, he is an expert on monetary, fiscal, and international economic policy. From 2001 to 2005, he served as U.S. undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs. He presented a talk titled “An Economic Program for the Future” at the Hoover retreat held October 17-19, 2010. (34:12)