Michael Conniff posits the idea that cheating is part of our national character, “The news that Sammy Sosa—late of the Chicago Cubs and lesser Major League Baseball (MLB) nines—applied performance-enhancing drugs during his career was about as shocking as the word echoing across the canyons of finance that implied Wall Streeters are greedy to the point of gluttony, with the law little more than a nuisance. Ain’t that America? In baseball and high finance, our citizens are more than welcome to game the system as long as nobody finds out.”