Barbaric Sport

Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing broadside, assailing the ''recent form of barbarism'' that is the global sporting event. Forget the Olympics and consider, under Perelman''s guidance, the ledger of inequities maintained by such supposedly harmless games.

They have provided a smokescreen for the forcible removal of ''undesirables''; aided governments in the pursuit of raci...