Just the verdict, please Peter H. Schuck, PETER H. SCHUCK, a Yale Law School professor, is the author of "Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics" (Rowman & Littlefield), out next week.
Alpha of existence, omega of trash NIALL FERGUSON, NIALL FERGUSON is a professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Website: www.niallferguson.org.
Our nation of thieves Rachel Shteir, RACHEL SHTEIR is the author of "Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show" (Oxford University Press, 2004). She is working on a book about kleptomania.