Ralph Nader, with Mr. Green at his right hand, had launched a drive against, as WFB puts it, "what they designate as the abuses and excesses of big business." Their "Corporate Democracy Act" would regulate the activity of the 800 largest corporations in the country. Mr. Green downplays the leftwingishness of the effort ("As for the socialist point, Mr. Buckley, the predicate of every book that I've worked on ... is market economy. It's more competition; it's more small business"); the discussion sometimes reaches the shouting stage as Messrs. Buckley and Bleiberg engage Mr. Green on the subject of regulation of all sorts, from the SEC to the FDA to the EPA.