The occasion for having Mr. Kinsley as guest rather than moderator is the

publication of his book Big Babies, which, as WFB glosses it, "tells us that the American

voter is a baby in that he wants one thing in principle, another in practice." The

conversation starts with democracy per se, then moves to the uses of government. MK:

"There is a role for society, through its proxy, the government, to slightly rejigger the

economic consequences of unalloyed capitalism. I am a great believer in free-market

capitalism. It's the most efficient way to produce prosperity, but it does exaggerate or

exacerbate the workings of fortune, of luck. And there is nothing wrong with society

deciding we are going to even it out a little bit--not a lot, just a little bit."